[tor-talk] Banned from IRC. Is there a work-around?

[Jon]

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:41 AM, David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried to access a few IRC channels on a couple of different IRC
> servers (gnone.org, gimp.org, and their associates)and they all are
> giving me this same message:
>
> *** Banned: Open proxy or TOR (auto-detected tor-irc.dnsbl.oftc.net;
> pre-join gline) (2011/06/09 16.07)
>
> as well as being G-Lined (whatever that means)
>
> I think that I succeeded in attaching to irc.oftc.net so now I want to
> ask someone there about this but I got lost in the Tor documentation and
> I do not know what conversation to join there, so I am trying tor-talk.
>
> It appears that I am banned because either my IP Address or the address
> of whichever exit node might be delivering my traffic is 'on the list'
>
> Originally, Pidgin was configured to use the default connection
> configuration, but I re-configured it to use socks5 Host 127.0.0.1 port
> 9050 and I get the same result.
>
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