[Dxspider-support] Cluster Abuse and IP Addresses

[Dirk Koopman G1TLH]

Lee Sawkins wrote:
> jarmo wrote:
>> On torstai 26 marraskuu 2009 15:24:19 Dirk Koopman G1TLH wrote:
>>
>>> I am curious as to how you are getting the IP address of the spotter
>>> from OH8X-11. Apart from the fact that most of these spots are filtered
>>> out as unreliable (by many sysops), surely it isn't possible to
>>> determine the IP address of the spotter that is connected to the OH8X-11
>>> website? And it's sending out PC11, isn't it?
>>>
>>> Dirk
>> Just curious. I have been reading list now for sometime and same time
>> monitored here cluster network. I haven't seen oh8x connected in any Finnish
>> cluster? Nor haven't seen any badspots either from there. I'm sysop for
>> OH1RCF.
>>
>> Could it be easy to ask person, if he or someone from qth has badspotted?
>>
>> Jarmo
> 
> OH8X exists only as a web cluster.  I am the one who is entering DX
> Spots from this web cluster under the cluster call of OH8X.  When my
> spot sucker was using VE7CC-xx for these spots I was receiving some
> complaints about spot content.  Instead of having to redirect these
> complainers to DX Summit, I changed the spot suckers call to OH8X.  I
> have corresponded with DX Summit and they did not object to this.  I no
> longer have to redirect complaints.   I obtain the IP addresses of
> spotters from http://www.dxsummit.fi/dxsinput.aspx   
> 
> K1TTT also runs a DX Summit spot sucker using the call K1TTT-14. 
> Although we both have the same source, we have different rules for
> dropping bad spots.  If you want to stop all DX Summit spots, you have
> to block both OH8X-xx and K1TTT-14.
> 

And many centrally placed nodes do precisely that: they block these 
spots and other traffic. So this data is not as widely distributed as 
one thinks.

Dirk