Below is a list of the teams that are currently active on DALnet.
The members of the Coders Team are the people who code the DALnet IRCD. They program, make the necessary adjustments, and perform maintenance when needed. They create the new commands within Services. They make life on DALnet possible!
The Help Committee's main responsibility is to assist the users in various ways. They set general policies for recommended help channels in order to maintain a high standard of help on DALnet. Basically, the team consists of one member from each DALnet owned help channel. The Help Committee works in several areas, therefore, sub-teams have been created.
This team is responsible for all the documents about DALnet, its Services, and various other applications that can be of some help to the users on the network. The Docs Team make them available and understandable for everyone who wishes to consult them. This involves the translation of the documents to quite a few different languages so that users who do not have English as their first language can be accommodated, too.
This team is responsible for maintaining and updating the Help Committee websites. The Web Team makes sure that the information provided on these websites are accurate and up-to-date, so the users can navigate through it with the confidence that the information there is current and correct.
They handle everything related with DNS issues and configuration for the net. This includes setting up DNS entries for new servers and maintaining the server pool.
DALnet's KLine team was established as a mediator between DALnet, the offenders and the providers, in the hopes of reaching a peaceful resolution to any questions regarding autokills that are in place. Whether the question comes from a DALnet user, a staff member, or a provider, it's up to the KLine team to offer proof upon request regarding any charge of abuse. Please keep in mind that the DALnet IRC Network, as well as any server linked to DALnet, have the right to deny any access to its network for any reason, with or without cause. Abuse includes, but is not limited to: mass-advertising, open proxy abuse, exploiting of viruses or any material that might cause damage to another user, cloning, evading autokills and evading channel bans. Each area is handled by a specialized sub-team.
The purpose of the Closers team is to deal with channels that have been closed. The Closers Team will interact with both the users and the DALnet operators in resolving issues regarding closed channels. The Closers Team, upon request of a DALnet user, operator, or other source, will directly investigate the circumstances surrounding the closing of the channel in question, and return an evaluation of the situation to the person making the request.
The Closers Team may make one of several choices based on the evidence provided. Some sort of agreement would be made with the staff who closed the channel that the closure was the correct solution, and state so to the person making the request after finding conclusive evidence to support the action.
Reopen the channel based on:
a) A lack of supporting evidence to warrant the channel being closed.
b) Finding the close was not an appropriate method of stopping the alleged abuse.
Decide the situation requires more investigation and contact the CSop that closed the channel in order to obtain a better perspective of the circumstances related to the close.
This team keeps record of the authorized cybercafes; in order for your site not to be considered a multiple clones site from DALnet's Administration and Services, some general contact information is needed for recognition purposes to ensure your connections are not terminated.
The DALnet Massads team was established as a mediator between the users and the providers that were autokilled for spamming (which includes both channel invites and web sites). This team is responsible for communication between the users and the providers, in an effort to curb spamming on DALnet.
Due to the recent surge of virii that search websites for email address', the Massads Team only accepts online contact. If you wish to report a spam, please visit
The DALnet Exploits Prevention Team was established as a mediator for users who have been autokilled for exploiting other users, either knowingly or unknowingly. If a user is autokilled for exploits, and they didn't know they were infected, it is this team's job to help them remove the exploit from their system, so that they may get back online. For users that do this knowingly, this team also contacts the provider about the abuse issue. Where #nohack is the front end of this overall operation, the Exploits Prevention Team is the back end. #nohack tries to help before it becomes an issue with an autokill. The Exploits Prevention Team helps you after you've been autokilled. They are also responsible for identifying the exploitative scripts and add-ons. They also deal with clones and open proxy abuse.
The purpose of this team is to deal with abuse issues directly related to the DALnet Services. This is to include both user connections as well as other IRC Operator connections. The forms of abuse include, but not limited to: mass nickname registrations, mass channel registrations, flooding, or spamming users via MemoServ, use of *!*@*.* in the access list, the AOp lists, or the SOp lists.
The postmasters basically maintain all the @dal.net mailing lists and manage the database of opers and their email aliases.
The people on this team moderate DALnet's mailing lists. They are in charge of keeping spams off the lists and filtering the posts for off-topic postings or flames.
This team maintains links between servers. The Routing Team reconnects servers to optimize the network structure.
This team's mission is to provide consistent training for all newly selected IRCops, Services Administrators and CSOps. This team will not train you to become an IRCop. They only train those who have already been selected as such.
This team is in charge of general maintenance and updating of DALnet's website. The Web Team is responsible for all the information contained on the website.
They have the maximum authority on DALnet. They overview the general control of DALnet, as it may be settling disputes, or deciding on server CFVs.
These people have the highest level of access to the Services. They decide who deserves a CSOp status and manage Services at a console level (not to the ability of the coders though, in other words, coders actually dig around in Services code, SRAs don't). They have the ability to login to the machine on which Services is running and perform various operations. IRCops are told to go to them if they have any questions. They make rulings on many things, including IRC operator accesses. They also established the IRC operator code of behavior.