<div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/9 Lee Sawkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ve7cc@shaw.ca">ve7cc@shaw.ca</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I am not running a Spider cluster, but I will not be implementing<br>
registration. It is simply too much work. In the last 3.5 years I have<br>
received PC41 data from over 62,000 different calls. That is how many<br>
different cluster users there has been. I estimate a minimum of 10,000<br>
of them have connected to my cluster.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As the sysop of 2 very busy clusters I disagree. I register on average about 4 users a day which takes me 5 minutes. Initially it was more of course but once running there is little traffic and it is the *only* way IMHO to gain any kind of control on the network. It gives the sysop the ability to control abuse and works *very* well. It was initially implemented during 911 (One of Dirks busiest days) and one of the clusters darkest hours. A lot of us made about 8 updates that day and the result was very good indeed. It did not stop the problem but tat and badspotter gave us some control over the network.</div>
<div>I have not come down on one side or the other with dropping IP addresses but my gut feeling is that I don't like it. Anyone who has to use a proxy might well be limited by it for a start.</div><div>Having said that, the ability for users to log in using g/w0*** or whatever is something we have needed for a while. I guess it has not been implemented because it might break older software but you all know my opinions on that :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>73 Ian</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br>Ian J Maude, G0VGS<br>SysOp GB7MBC & HB9DRV-9 DX Clusters<br>Member RSGB, GQRP 9838, FISTS 14077 | K3 #455<br><a href="http://www.amateurradiotraining.org" target="_blank">http://www.amateurradiotraining.org</a> <br>
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