QuakeNet

QuakeNet

QuakeNet is the largest IRC network, with peak user counts close to 180,000 every day [ [http://mrtg.quakenet.org/cgi/_TOTAL_.cgi Quakenet users ] ] [ [http://searchirc.com/network/QuakeNet Search IRC, displaying network information for QuakeNet ] ] and over 180,000 channels. At its peak on 8 February 2005, the network recorded 243,394 simultaneous connections.

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Founded in 1997 as an IRC network for QuakeWorld players, QuakeNet has seen huge growth over the years as it attracted many other gamers [ [http://www.quakenet.org/history.php The official website for the QuakeNet IRC network ] ] . It became popular initially because of its network stability and service bot 'Q' and later 'L'. [ [http://searchirc.com/services/QuakeNet Search IRC, displaying information about QuakeNet's network services ] ] QuakeNet has many services, some of which are:

* D - Newserv control service
* G - Automated help and control service, second version of H and F.
* NO - NOperserv beta (Operserv for the Newserv API)
* N4 - Another Newserv control service (P's)
* O - Operator service
* P - Proxyscan 2 (Newserv module)
* Q - The fully featured channel management service, the most famous QuakeNet service
* R - Q and S request service (Newserv module)
* S - Spamscan service, version 2 (Newserv module)
* T - Trojanscan, version 2 (Newserv module)
* U - Lua scripting engine (Newserv module)
* Y - Another Newserv control service
* Z - Another Newserv control service (runs unstable code and nterfacer)
* Tutor - Plays tutorials, manages the users' questions and its answers on #tutorial (Newserv module)
* DevChat - used for developer-chats (like 'Tutor') (Newserv module) (not loaded when not used)

The list of features for the public service bots can be found on the [http://www.quakenet.org/ QuakeNet official home page]

Former services:
* B - Private service used by Boomtown customers.
* E - E-mail service, used by for processing the trust queue and sending acceptance/rejection emails
* F - #feds channel management service
* H - Automated help service (Newserv module)
* L - Lightweight channel management service, obsolete with Q's 2008 upgrade.
* M - Match bot, reported stats from game servers (was only online briefly)
* V - VirusScan (automated drone removal), also used as VersionScan
* W - World Cup Score Announcer (Only in #worldcup)

References

External links

* [http://www.quakenet.org/ QuakeNet official home page]
* [http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.php?net=QuakeNet Netsplit.de statistics]
* [http://searchirc.com/network/QuakeNet Searchirc.com statistics]
* [http://news.google.com/archivesearch/url?sa=t&source=archive&ct=res&cd=1-0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theinquirer.net%2F%3Farticle%3D12012&ei=IB3VSOndE5eC3QadvLDACg&usg=AFQjCNFWIzelxhCSvifon6J8Aj9XKRYClg Quakenet acts to eject Half Life sharers]
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