[Dxspider-support] ROS Mode

[Brendan Minish]

On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 01:32 -0430, Paolo L. Stradiotto R. wrote:

> Is the contest software spotting each S&P QSO falling in this category too ? 
> ("self-spot")

I though about this before I posted, since it is very similar however I
think there are a couple of Key differences 

1/ the contest logger only does this when turned on, does this with the
knowledge of the user AND remains connected to cluster system at the the
users normal Home node. 

The ROS software was connecting to a single node (without the Sysop's
consent) making a spot with a fixed comment that 'promoted the mode' and
immediately disconnecting again. To me this looks rather like an attempt
to promote the mode by spamming the cluster system 

2/ it's a 'two way thing' the contest logging software is using cluster
data to build up a band map, These S/P auto spots genuinely help with
this and judging by the cluster traffic at contest weekends a lot of
cluster users are   

Since the ROS software does not remain connected to the node to receive
spots it's clear that the ROS software is not actually using spots 



> The mistake was corrected 

Were they, though? 
We have seen no information yet on what he author has decided to do
instead. 
A side effect of this is that many of us now have ROS in our badwords
list, surely banning a mode is not really taking us forwards?   
Where does this leave ROS users who wish to use the cluster network in
the normal way 

> as well as that log program doing multiple connect 
> to many nodes at a time (and had less bandwith than this) time ago

Key difference here was that the users were genuinely trying to use the
cluster system and were misguided in thinking that multiple connects
help these days of a well meshed cluster system 

The majority of ROS users appear to have not been fully aware that the
software was behaving badly since they may not be cluster users 


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73
Brendan EI6IZ