[Dxspider-support] Australian 4 letter calls

Ian Maude maudeij at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 20 15:19:35 GMT 2009


Out of interest he is spotting through dxsummit at the moment so
presumably his spots are getting on to the network currently although
I have not checked as yet.

73 Ian

Ian J Maude, G0VGS
Sysop GB7MBC DX Cluster
K2 #4044 | K3 #455
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On 20 Nov 2009, at 12:00, Dirk Koopman G1TLH <gb7tlh at dxcluster.org>
wrote:

> Brendan Minish wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 11:03 +0000, Ian Maude wrote:
>>> However, they have a callsign that is recognised by the Australian
>>> authorities and we cannot discriminate just because they only have
>>> one
>>> foot on the ladder.
>> The issue I would have with 4 letter calls (& longer..) is how all
>> the
>> other nodes on the network will handle spots, talk, ann etc. Isn't
>> there
>> a real risk that not all nodes will handle 4 letter calls properly
>> They are also a non runner over packet.
>> Perhaps we should allow 4 letter calls to connect but not spot,
>> talk or
>> ann (beyond the local node anyway) Surely that's enough cluster
>> access to support logging software and get
>> one's feet wet yet protects the rest of the cluster network from
>> unintended consequences.
>> for example..  vk4abcd posts on a node, some other node (possibly
>> running something
>> ancient and now unsupported )  in the network parses this differently
>> and truncates it to VK4ABC and we have dupe spots, one with an
>> invalid
>> originating call
>
> I have reverted the change.
>
> Sorry Ian.
>
> The downside is too great. Also, in the current climate it also
> gives a greater opportunity to be clever with rude, fake, logins.
>
> Dirk
>
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