Recently unable to "/join #cygwin-developers"

[Mark Geisert]

Hi Takashi,

On 1/1/2026 4:30 AM, Takashi Yano wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:43:15 -0800
> Mark Geisert wrote:
>> All is well, sorry for any noise.
>> Happy New Year,
> 
> How did you solve the issue? I have the same problem.

Sorry for omitting the info; I thought only I had run into the problem.
I googled the message and was led to libera's help page
https://libera.chat/guides/registration

Basically NickServ is an authenticator and you send a couple messages to 
it (with /msg NickServ) and it sends an email to you that you use to 
complete authentication.

Let me know if you have any difficulty with this.  Same goes for anybody 
else reading this.  Private email to me is OK for this purpose.
HTH,

..mark