[Dxspider-support] R: Re: Self Spotting

[Robert Chalmas]

This is a very controversial topic which was already discussed a few times on 
this list.

Obviously, there is no chance we (and our users too) all agree on this.

On my side, I really hate "self spots", "friend spots", "my club spots", and 
similar. I've been modifying the code of DXSpider for many years (starting 
2003) to get rid of what I consider as a nuisance on my node HB9IAC-8. Not a 
complex job, just 4 lines to add at the right place to the 
/spider/perl/DXProtHandle.pm file (but to do again after each upgrade), and 
all "self spots" disappear...not optimal, but the easiest to do...

Several other sysops asked me for this "forbidden" code, one of them being so 
discouraged that he was seriously thinking about stopping his node if he could 
find no solution to this problem.

I strongly encourage Dirk to add a switch which would enable each user to 
choose if he wants to receive "self spots" or not, with a command like 
(un)set/selfspots. This seems me a reasonable compromise which would for sure 
be ethically better then a full censorship decided by the sysop alone.

73's

Robert - HB9BZA

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