[Dxspider-support] upcoming release

[Stephen J. Carroll]

Dirk,

It's been awhile, but back in June we had discussed a possible addition to
the user prompt which would indicate 'New Mail'.

This addition would only be relevant for NEW & PRIVATE mail to trigger it's
inclusion into the normal user prompt. It would seem your suggestion of a
simple text addition to the user prompt (Example #1) has a possible drawback
though.

Example #1:

K2SC de W4QB  4-Jun-2003 1856Z (New Mail) >


I believe the notification should be sent every 10 minutes, regardless of
spot activity or presence of the user prompt. As you know, during heavy spot
activity sometimes the whole packet screen can be filled and the user
wouldn't ever get a normal prompt anyway. So, unless the user initiated a
command to the cluster or there's at least 10 minutes without any spot
activity, that user wouldn't see the 'New Mail' flag. Therefore, I'm now
suggesting that perhaps a separate line may be a more efficient way of
notifying the user.

Example #2:

DX de K2PLF:     10105.2  3B8CF        CQ                             0217Z
MD
DX de W2GFF:     50077.7  N0LL/B       EM09OW>EM60 599                0222Z
AL
DX de K2PLF:     10109.3  YV1/W5ALT    CQ                             0219Z
MD
DX de K2CS:       3503.0  SP3DBD                                      0224Z
NY
DX de W0YG:       3512.8  5R8FU                                       0224Z
CO
*** New Mail ***
DX de N8CJK:     50100.0  W5DN         cqcw                        TX 0224Z
MI
DX de W2GFF:     50094.0  N0IS         EM48 599 QSO                MO 0224Z
AL
DX de N3DB:      50125.0  W7JE         55 2 x Es                   WA 0224Z
MD
DX de W4GDC:     50158.0  K4KVW        CQ CQ CQ KENTUCKY           FL 0224Z
FL

However, in my opinion either example would be a welcome addition to the
software. I'm not a code writer, so perhaps you can just force a user prompt
(Example #1).

Thanks for your consideration & Happy New Year 2004 !!!

73, Steve - K2SC