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This is a guide for people who have used IRC before that explains more about services and some features unique to Blitzed. This guide assumes you have already connected to irc.blitzed.org, if you want more help go to New users.
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[edit] Services
All interaction with services is done via /msg, however there are some aliases available which work on most clients for example rather than /msg NickServ you can use /ns. If your client does not support them by default it is fairly easy to add using aliases, for example on Irssi the commands would be:
/alias ns /quote ns :$0- /alias cs /quote cs :$0- /alias ms /quote ms :$0-
[edit] NickServ
If you haven't already registered your nickname, do so now:
/ns register password user@example.com
Make sure you provide a real email address, we require email verification (you might want to hide your email address once you have registered with /ns set hide email on).
The easiest way to make sure you are identified and joined to channels automatically on join is to put your NickServ password into the server password setting and configure your autojoin list on NickServ:
/ns autojoin add #channel
This means when you connect, your password will be sent and you will be joined to channels after you identify, ensuring that you are correctly joined to channels.
Another useful feature only found in Blitzed services is regain, rather than having to use the ghost command, change your nickname, then identify you can do it all in one command:
/ns regain nickname password
[edit] ChanServ
Various useful chanserv features.
If you have several operators then it is useful to see what commands are used with chanserv:
/cs set #channel verbose on
The AUTOLIMIT, CLEARBANS and TOPICPREFIX are Blitzed specific options that can reduce the need for a channel bot, see /cs help set option for more information.
It is also a good idea for the founder of a channel to set a successor so that a channel is not dropped if the original founder is no longer around:
/cs set #channel successor nickname
[edit] More information
See the services pages: NickServ, ChanServ and MemoServ for more information on services.