[Dxspider-support] Selfspotter (SPAM) (CHAT)

[Hank Kohl K8DD]

At 5/10/2004 06:03 AM, you wrote:

>There is data and then there is quality of data. A responsible sysop is one
>who provides a useful service for his users. That precludes getting the
>results of, for a real case example, sh/dx/20 that shows M3... spotting
>himself 8 times on 18130 calling CQ to the exclusion of useful data that has
>been lost in the proliferation of junk. Without some kind of self regulation
>and a modicum of policing, the dx spot databases which are already abused by
>non-callsign infiltration, will lose their value still further and will need
>more intensive interrogation to extract the valuable information as
>considered by the majority.
>
>Although client software can obviate some of these problems by providing the
>necessary filtering, nevertheless it should be incumbent on sysops to
>advocate and implement this kind of filtering at source. Without responsible
>action, including education, inevitably what is now a mild nuisance will
>become a significant bug-bear into the future.

I see a comparison of "bad" data ( self spotting ) to "bad e-mail ( SPAM ).
Many people or their ISP's feel that they have to filter out SPAM and this 
thread
is saying that SysOps should filter out self spotting.

My personal opinion on SPAM is it is the users responsibility - what is SPAM to
you just may not be SPAM to me.
What is a "bad" spot ( self spotting, in this case ) may not be a "bad" 
spot to me,
or my users.

Let's not make SysOps censors.  However I agree that there are sections of the
world that could make better use of the TALK and / or CHAT functions!

There's my 2 cents for whatever it's worth.

73    Hank   K8DD