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Bulk message removal or removing everything from RELAYMSG'd user
Yesterday we had a lot of "binary mess" spawning about ten 50 minutes and 178 lines (before matterbridge crash?) from Discord and I wish to remove it from being visible to new users through KiwiIRC without waiting for history expiration time. I don't expect the content to disappear for clients that have already received it, only for CHATHISTORY and PLAYBACK.
I don't know if this warrants an issue at Oragono or if I should be commenting to https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/pull/425, but I am using Oragono while not being a client nor server developer or otherwise part of IRCv3 and by opening an issue there is at least a record of this happening.
- https://view.matrix.org/room/!VNKfmSucoOfcjSEfzw:privacytools.io/?anchor=$cwfaVIX135jMGGvZPqn8UMukHtoGWh8BjJGWIr5KQuQ&offset=210 - Matrix side log which also doesn't support bulk message removal.
Self-bumb from IRC and keyword HistServ (that didn't find this issue):
2021-W31-6 14:30:04 +0300 <Mikaela> Regarding recent Apple events what is the Ergo way of dealing with spammers either spamming childporn or something manipulated to look like childporn towards Apple? Copying message-IDs from RAW LOG to HistServ?
I guess Ergo is in a better position than many for not storing actual images/files (unless they are converted to text somehow), but malicious links are still a concern and many IRC clients nowdays fetch images for previews which may include a webchat publicly associated with the network and look bad especially towards new users.
Let's add HISTSERV BULKDELETE for 2.10. The MVP is the ability to delete messages matching a NUH (or possibly a NUH wildcard) from a single channel.
I'm going to implement this using the client-to-server protocol (a custom client based on irc-go, taking command-line arguments that specify how to connect to the server and retrieve affected history).
That sounds like a excotic solution. Can it be ran remotely and manage remote server through oper credentials or will it need to be ran on the Ergo account on localhost?
It will work remotely. You'll just need to supply the server address, operator credentials, and (optionally) SASL credentials.
It's not polished or user-friendly but I figured it was better to release a first pass:
https://github.com/ergochat/bulkremoval
I think the decision to make it client-side instead of server-side has been validated --- it gives us a lot more flexibility in UI decisions, message matching, etc.
This is good to have for massive spam, but a simpler option for channel ops to just wipe some recent history would be also really good to have.
I would propose to extend the HISTSERV delete function with time based parameters, like so:
/histserv delete #channelname 1d
or 1h or all etc. to just wipe the recent messages from the stored history.
