I had a chat with a few people in that channel, the channels seemed to be very nice, and i
started a server there
(Polaris-Script).
First with some songs i downloaded on the internet.
After a week this was not enough for me so i decided to rip all my cd's. This was a lot of
work but it really satisfied me :)
After that i got some problems with the polaris script. It was not working good for long file-
names. I searched for another program to share my files and i found SPR. This was really
the perfect script for me. It had a getright function and it could generate a list.
Because i was joining several channels at that time (about 6) and gained my AOP in all the
channels, it would be a nice try to start my own channel. #gabbermp3 was born in summer 2001.
The channel #gabbermp3 at dalnet was maybe about 10 people after 1 year, so it never had
any succes. The few servers in the channel were fservers at that time, with a slow connection just like me :).
After that year i started to get jealous because i saw all those big XDCC channels with fast connection, so i
searched on the internet for some tekst files how to make those channels.
So i made about 2 XDCC's and put them up at #gabbermp3 in DALnet. This was for a few months because script
kiddies started to ddos attack dalnet on march 2003. Nobody liked it at #mp3z-techno-dance
but we needed to move if this was going on all the time, so we were searching for an
alternative. At least everybody agreed it had to be a server with a chan and nick serv on it.
At that time there were just a few mIRC servers with this option. Finally
we came to AXENET and because the DDOS attacks were still going on we were moving, but really
slowly. A lot of channels i was on, on DALnet moved but all to different mIRC servers. This
was really a pitty, but it was a nice opportunity for me to start a renewed channel with XDCC's.
This was really a succes and #mp3z-techno-dance also decided to start a XDCC channel on criten.
Now i operated on #mp3z-techno-dance and #gabbermp3 on axenet and on #mp3z-techno-dance-xdcc critten.
The #mp3z-techno-dance-xdcc on critten had about 600+ users in really a short time.
Now i started to gain more and more bots for #gabbermp3 on axenet and the users went up quite fast.
Because this was taking a lot of my time i decided to quit #mp3z-techno-dance-xdcc on critten.
After a while we had about 150 users on #gabbermp3 on axenet (This was because our channel showed up at
www.packetnews.com) so we were bigger then #mp3z-techno-dance with about 150 users.
Then the IRCops told us to set the channel on secret because we were growing so fast and they had to pay
a lot for the bandwidth we were consuming with the channel.
Summer 2003: Script kiddies started to ddos axenet :(
We needed to search for another server again. After checking some servers, me and trickster decided to
go to rizon. It was quite stable compared to other networks. #mp3z-techno-dance changed to the unreal server
and i decided to quit that channel because of that.
August 2003 we were completly moved from axenet and operating on rizon were we still are now :)
Only we now got more then 500 users all the time. Our channel peak was about 1000 users (This includes all the XDCC
catcher scripts). |