[Dxspider-support] Sorry, this is a duplicate ???

[Dirk Koopman]

Tom Vavra wrote:
> The cmd/dx.pl module issues the error message when a call to Spots::dup 
> returns an error.  It looks like the variable   $Spots::dupage  (default 
> 60 * 60) can be changed to shorten this period if you want.
>  
>                    73     Tom
> 
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Alan D. Snyder <mailto:adsnyder at yardley.com>
>     *To:* The DXSpider Support list <mailto:dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
>     *Sent:* Saturday, January 13, 2007 3:25 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Dxspider-support] Sorry, this is a duplicate ???
> 
>     Tom - thanks.  what module is the code in? - I didn't have the
>     energy to grep the thing ...
> 
>     Alan
> 
>     Tom Vavra wrote:
>>     Alan
>>      
>>     It looks like the message is sent when a dupe spot is issued by a
>>     user within 60 minutes.  If the dx, frequency, spotter, and first
>>     20 characters of the comment is identical to one originated within
>>     60 minutes it dumps it.
>>      

60 minutes is the period that was arrived at, after some debate, when it 
was first put in. I am open to changing the default, however, people 
will need to put their point of view to make it happen.

In the meantime set/var $Spots::dupage = 1800 will (for instance) set it 
to 30 mins. I would be not recommend it is set to much less, because 
some of the looping periods that we occasionally get on the network can 
be as long as 20 mins.

Dirk G1TLH