[Dxspider-support] New feature request

[Dirk Koopman]

Then I can't really help either, because chat should be compatible with
AK1A (although you will get #1 #2 at the front of messages and you will
have to manually edit a 'GROUP.LST' file [where GROUP is the chat group
name]). DxNet AFAIK has no such facility.

There is no mechanism in PC Protocol to do what you want. Chat is simply
using what is there and interpreting the data a bit.

Dirk 
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 18:32 +0000, Dave EI3IO wrote:
> 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
> > 
>