Services is a program that runs adjacent to an IRC network's IRC servers. It provides facilities for nickname registration, channel registration, channel management, memo message sending, and much more. For more information on how to use services on BlabberNet, please read here.

BlabberNet runs a version of services called IRC Services. Version 5 of IRC Services was recently released with new features to make IRC that much more enjoyable. BlabberNet has decided it's time to upgrade and has scheduled this upgrade to take place sometime after 20 January 2003.

Among the many small, cosmetic and behind-the-scenes changes, the following new features stand out the most:

• New nickname linking. Instead of linking a child nickname to a parent, a parent nickname is linked to a child (kind of reverse). This method is a far more secure way of linking nicks together and ensures your nickname privileges aren't hijacked by someone that manages to link his/her own nick to your's without your knowledge. At the same time, all linked nicknames share the password of the parent nick. In the past, linked nicknames had their own passwords independant of the parent's.
• Nicknames now have an "Information" line allowing you to set any custom information to be associated to your group of nicks. Much like a channel's description.
• One can set their local timezone information for their nick, allowing all time specific messages to be reformatted to their local time.
• One can set a list of channels to automatically join whenever they identify for their nickname.
• One can prevent certain other users from sending them memos.
• Channel autokicks specified by nickname now only affect that nickname, not any linked nicks.
• Many more! Please check #IRChelp for more info.

No. All current services information will be converted before the upgrade to ensure no one looses their nickname registration, channel registration, memos, or any services specific information. If, for whatever reason, information is lost, please see us in #blabber or mail the Admin Team with the details.

If at any time you get stuck with any of the new features of IRC Services, please pop into #IRChelp and ask for help. If no one is available to help, feel free to mail support@blabber.net or try again later.