Comment by jzb

"If anything, I'd suspect that he'd keep the channel open as long as he could."

The real story is that he was added to the channel, so it doesn't surprise me that he didn't try to lurk indefinitely. I'm guessing these things are also ad-hoc, so perhaps the well was already dry after the attack?

But this is some truly amateur-hour shit. I've seen better communications discipline from volunteer open source projects than this.