When registering your nickname do you post "/msg NickServ REGISTER
password email" in the room you are in and want to register to or in
the main server part that first comes up and that registers you to all
rooms?
reddit / irc

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agnostic-infp-neet · 2021-12-08 04:03

I've accidentally posted my email before in a chat room years ago and
never bothered to try again. Emails take cellphone ID's to be created
now days, even protonmail did me that way, so it stressed me out
thinking to try again... The current chat room I use does not allow
you to have 'voice' until after you register and I'm afraid that if I
don't register that I'll stop being manually added to be able to post,
if I understand that is how it is working, my talking. The waiting
period for 'autovoice' (as they seem to call it) is 2 weeks so I don't
want to screw it up also for that reason. If no one is around I won't
have someone do that +V thing I guess...

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theLJR · 2021-12-08 04:14

You can do it in the status window when you connect. I always do this
to avoid accidentally posting to a active channel. As a tip depending
on your irc client you can setup perform action on connect to
automatically identify yourself to nickserv. Hope this helps

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snowice0 · 2021-12-08 04:25

You are messaging the nickserv so you could message that from any
window really but it's good practice to send the message from the
status window to avoid accidentally sending something to the channel.

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ferrybig · 2021-12-08 07:54

When you register, you send a private message to the bot controlling
the account NickServ. It is not a message send to a channel.

Most IRC clients (though not all) see a message starting with / as a
command, and since the next instruction is msg, those clients send a
private message to the specified user

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killerj666 · 2021-12-08 08:15

Doesn’t matter as long as you have the / in front

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Mendacity531 · 2021-12-08 12:09

You can do it from any window actually, but for security sakes I
generally do it from the status window.

By the way, it is IRC, it is called a channel window, not a room
window.  Take that AOL shit and deep six it right away.

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Mendacity531 · 2021-12-08 12:10

While technically you are correct, practicing good security should
always matter.

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agnostic-infp-neet · 2021-12-08 12:58

I never used AOL actually. IRC chat room just sounds good as if you
say IRC channel then it sounds less laymen and I am a layman when it
comes to lots of things.

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skizzerz1 · 2021-12-08 14:51

A registration with NickServ is global across all channels in the IRC
network you are currently connected to. You do not need to register
individually with each channel.

On future connections, you will need to “identify” to your registered
account in order to be able to use it (such as automatically receiving
voice on a channel if you were added to that channel’s access list).
Most clients have a place in the settings to specify your password so
they can do it for you. If not, the command to do so is /msg NickServ
IDENTIFY password.

In both cases I recommend posting those commands in the main server
tab or in a dedicated PM (Private Message) tab to NickServ. Most
clients let you create dedicated PM tabs via /query NickServ.

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iceking84 · 2023-04-14 14:28

I gotta say I could use help I’ve been trying to register with this
nickserv for like an hour. I’m absolutely retarded when it comes to
this kinda stuff and computers and I have no idea what I’m doing. I’ve
tried googling and I tried doing it step by step, I got the nickname
part but when I do my password and email it says failed 🤷🏻‍♂️