[Dxspider-support] FYI: 4 new nodes added to ROS Auto-Spotting function.

[Wayne]

  Ok Dirk, you asked for it! <G>

I'm not sure why you would want to "play nice" with this kind of 
activity. It would seem you are only opening up a path for someone to 
try and create yet another workaround. I'm in favor of a "cripple mode"  
being enacted by the repeated quick connect and disconnect action, 
however once in "cripple mode," It should not be automatic to come out 
of "cripple mode."

I think pretending to be nice sends a message that only leads to more 
conflict.

My best teachers in school demanded respect for their classroom and also 
enforced that policy. They in turn earned my respect.

73

Wayne  WA1PMA

On 7/14/2010 12:39 AM, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> On 12/07/10 21:51, VK3AMA wrote:
>> FYI
>>
>> The latest release of ROS software has added 4 new nodes to
>> auto-spotting function.
>>
>> BG2RVL-9 dx.5iyou.cn:7373
>> BD5RV dxc.jsdxc.net:7300
>> BA2IA-2 spot.ba2ia.com:7300
>> 9H1LO-1 dx.9h1lo.net:7300
>>
>> At time of this email, of the last 150 ROS cluster spots,
>> 148 were auto-generated (98.7%).
>>
>
> If all major nodes were to do a "set/badword ros" then it probably 
> does not matter that he keeps adding to the list, as the spots won't 
> propagate very far.
>
> On an other tack: I have been wondering for a while what to do with 
> all the programs (of which the ROS stuff is but one) that insist on 
> logging in, doing one or two things (eg send a spot or sh/dx), then 
> immediately logging out.
>
> Now, the code already does not bother (in most cases) to send out 
> routing information for these in/out merchants, but I am now thinking 
> that I ought perhaps to be a bit more brutal.
>
> It would be a fairly simple job to have some kind of averaging or pump 
> up timer that has the effect going into "cripple" mode if the last n 
> connections were less than m seconds long.
>
> "Cripple" mode would something like pretending to be a nice 
> cooperative cluster that accepts spots, but does not send them on, 
> and/or returns a *very* limited view of data such as spots (maybe only 
> two or three spots else spots that are an hour or so old).
>
> If the user starts to behave like a real person and connects p times 
> for more than m seconds, it automatically comes out of "cripple" mode. 
> While in "cripple" mode for more than (say) 2*m+random amount seconds 
> then de-cripples that user for that session. This behaviour persists 
> until they have behaved for p sessions.
>
> "Misbehaviour" puts the user back into "cripple" mode.
>
> Views anyone?
>
> Dirk G1TLH
>