This is what I did when I was trying to connect to #rubyonrails channel and kept getting thrown into #overflow.
I executed the following command twice (while I was still in #overflow)
/msg nickserv register <your-password>
The first time I ran it, I got the following message:
*** -NickServ- Please wait 120 seconds before using REGISTER againI waited a while and got this after running it a second time
:*** -NickServ- Your nickname is now registered with the password [<my-password> ].
Last, I ran the following command for good measure:
/msg nickserv register <your-password>
And got the following result:
*** -NickServ- You have already identified
