Talk:IRC flood

message: Flooding on an IRC network is a method of disconnecting users from the IRC server
Flooding is not necessarily intended to kick someone off a server (a denial-of-service attack).  It can be used to annoy people or get attention by saying things repeatedly.  This sense is also called spamming. -- Myria 06:46, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The person flooding may be disconnected with an 'excess flood' message, but generally, neither the server nor the clients being flooded will have major troubles, it's really just an annoyance. Michael Billington (talk • contribs) 08:44, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad first sentence fragment 

message: Typically referred to as a ping flood. This attack sends so much information to the client it causes lag or disconnection; Often caused by either IRC clients working in union or botnets of Eggdrop bots. This is also a simple DDoS attack.
Since it's a DDoS attack, and takes place entirely off the IRC protocol, should this really be here? The only link it has to IRC is that targets are found through IRC, and since most IRCds have some way to hide the user's origin, it's not really an IRC flood.
--Sarten-X 20:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ICMP flood 

message: I notice this sentence in the article: Mogar has done this many many times on the icq server.
Is this vandalism?
--Agus elex 2005 20:15, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this vandalism? 

message: Flooding is not limited to IRC.  Crapflood (generally large numbers of messages, not one long message) also occurs in NNTP newsgroups.  This is intended to make a newsgroup unusable by increasing the noise content.  Since ICMP flood is actually not an IRC flood, perhaps the title of the article should be changed to "Internet Floods".
DERoss (talk) 04:48, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other floods 

message: IMO this article could be merged into Internet Relay Chat.
104.228.101.152 (talk) 10:54, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Necessary article? 

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message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Crapflooding. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 17:31, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
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message: This is a required app to mobile chat on mirc Ajcole29 (talk) 12:37, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mirc mobile app should be a thing