/usr/share/doc/inspircd/examples/motd.txt.example is in inspircd 2.0.20-5build2.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o644.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39  |  _____                        _____   _____    _____      _
|_   _|                      |_   _| |  __ \  / ____|    | |
  | |    _ __    ___   _ __    | |   | |__) || |       __| |
  | |   | '_ \  / __| | '_ \   | |   |  _  / | |      / _` |
 _| |_  | | | | \__ \ | |_) | _| |_  | | \ \ | |____ | (_| |
|_____| |_| |_| |___/ | .__/ |_____| |_|  \_\ \_____| \__,_|
    __________________| |_______________________________
   |__________________|_|_______________________________|
                        Putting the ricer in IRCer since 2007
       //\
       V  \    WELCOME TO AN INSPIRCD NETWORK
        \  \_    If you see this, I am probably new.
         \,'.`-.   If I'm not new, my owner is lazy.
          |\ `. `.
          ( \  `. `-.                        _,.-:\
           \ \   `.  `-._             __..--' ,-';/
            \ `.   `-.   `-..___..---'   _.--' ,'/
             `. `.    `-._        __..--'    ,' /
               `. `-_     ``--..''       _.-' ,'
                 `-_ `-.___        __,--'   ,'
                    `-.__  `----"""    __.-'
                         `--..____..--'
        ---- To change, see motd.txt.example -----
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