Replaces the placeholder MOTD with a usable one: a coloured header, five house rules, the NickServ/ChanServ/SASL commands people actually need, and a short "worth knowing" section. The retention line is generated rather than hard-coded, so it matches the deployment instead of drifting from it: HISTORY=off says messages are not stored, otherwise it names the real HISTORY_EXPIRE. Users are told plainly that channels are logged and for how long, which is the honest counterpart to enabling persistent history by default. Rendered and checked: valid UTF-8 (an invalid byte makes the whole config fail to load), ASCII-only for old clients, no stray $-escapes, only documented colour names, and 72 columns at the widest. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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$c[cyan]__NETWORK_NAME__$r -- __DOMAIN__
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$c[cyan]============================================================$r
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Welcome! This is a small IRC network running Ergo.
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$bHouse rules$r
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1. Be decent to one another. No harassment, hate speech, or
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personal attacks.
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2. No spam, flooding, or unsolicited advertising.
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3. Keep it legal, and roughly work-safe unless a channel's
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topic says otherwise.
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4. Don't evade bans. If you disagree with an operator, take it
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to a private message rather than into the channel.
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5. Channels may add rules of their own -- read the /TOPIC.
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$bGetting set up$r
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Register your nick /msg NickServ REGISTER <password>
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Stay logged in enable SASL PLAIN in your client
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Register a channel /msg ChanServ REGISTER #channel
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Help /msg NickServ HELP /msg ChanServ HELP
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$bWorth knowing$r
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__HISTORY_NOTE__
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Your IP address is hidden from other users, but not from staff.
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Questions or appeals: message an operator -- see /ADMIN.
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Enjoy your stay.
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