Because us of this threat, I went to it yesterday as well.
Connecting to it was no problem for me (from the EU).
In the leading channels there, there is not much chatting going on though. But if you wanna test your new protection scripts, its the best place to go.
All I saw in those channels, was kicking, banning, spamming, on join/on part messages, advertising etc etc.
Man, mayhem!
But it did work...