[Dxspider-support] Info please
IZ5FSA
iz5fsa at tele2.it
Sun Jan 16 15:46:27 GMT 2005
I think that the best way to control ANN FULL is to manage a setting on
the user definition and by default set this switch to OFF... leaving
sysops free to control ANN spammers users and nodes... and at least
isolate them at all!
73s
Luigi - IK5ZUK wrote:
> Hi Dirk and hi all !!
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>>Cluster pollution is already becoming a nuisance. On the hour every hour
>>I see several announces of this nature coming through EI7MRE
>>
>>How about a filter in DXspider that spots the same ANN message from a
>>cluster (not a user) within 24 Hours and drops these ann messages so
>>that we can start to filter out some of this automated ANN traffic ?
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>>Erm... without wishing to appear to be, in any way, erm.. racist but why
>>does my log show that every regular announcer of their cluster node
>>appears to be Italian (eg sh/log dyndns)? Since 21Nov04, there is an
>>honourable mention of PE1M, but all the rest are Italian!
>>
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> Yes, as Italian and with a lot of unwillingly, I admit that most of ANN FULL
> messages are coming from Italian nodes.
> I can't reject this, it's reality ! :((
> But not all the ANN/F messages are coming from Italy; we can take a look by
> giving "sh/ann 300 cluster" spider command, and so we can see that automated
> ANN bot are also running outside Italy...
>
> You are right Brendan, your idea about the automated ANN drop filter can be
> usefull for this... but please, let me ask once again to Dirk, to add a new
> variable in spider so that sysops can swith off (or on) on the fly the ANN
> (full and local) command.
>
> 73 de Luigi, IK5ZUK
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