[Dxspider-support] New feature request

[Dave EI3IO]

Robert
Because the Irish network has a mix of AK1A, DxNet and Spider clusters 
and the CHAT command is Spider specific. Furthermore, most Spider users 
have not enabled CHAT. I would for example as SYSOP like to announce to 
radio users on nodes to which I provide a non telnet feed that the 
Cluster supplying their spots is undergoing maintenance or rebooting or 
such.
73s Dave

Robert Chalmas wrote:

>> A happy new year to you all. A small request if you are thinking about 
>> tackling the announce question; would it be possible to have a middle 
>> road between announce and announce/full for example announce EI which 
>> would only go to stations connected to EI nodes. Perhaps this could be 
>> done with filters and an alias but not sure about that. Any other views?
> 
> 
> Why not use the CHAT command for this purpose ? With a CHAT EI it would
> be possible to do this, as long as users are clearly informed about this
> (in the login message for example).
> 
> Most of the traffic generated by the ANN FULL command could indeed
> use the CHAT command, which is very flexible. Why not use CHAT HF for
> information about HF activities, CHAT country_pfx for information
> interesting only for users in one country,...
> 
> We would just need to advertise a few common groups and maybe it could
> even make it possible to switch off the ANN FULL command which looks
> more and more like cluster pollution.
> 
> Greetings from                    Robert - HB9BZA
> 

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