IRC Quote Pong ASCII Cookie problem

[justice]

I'm using Instabird for IRC but I'm having a bit of a problem. When logging on to certain servers I get the following message:

11:59:31 - irc.umich.edu: (notice) To complete your connection to this server, type "/QUOTE PONG :cookie", where cookie is the following ascii.

But the Ascii text is not displayed. I've learned it's PING/PONG cookie anti-spoof protection, but I don't know how that helps me. Maybe an expert IRCer can check out Instabird and help me out?  Perhaps there is an addon / workaround for it but I'm not sure what to search for.

Cheers

[justice]

They're working on it:
https://bugzilla.instantbird.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917