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+;; joining && autojoing
+
+;; make sure to use wildcards for e.g. freenode as the actual server
+;; name can be be a bit different, which would screw up autoconnect
+(setq erc-autojoin-channels-alist
+  '(("10.140.40.21" "#deployment")))