[Dxspider-support] R: Re: Self Spotting

[Dana Rawding]

Not a bad idea but maybe it also need to be switchable by band or at least only apply to HF.  I would never turn it on if it was going to prevent self spotting on VHF or up.

Dana
N1OFZ

On Jan 17, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Robert Chalmas wrote:

> 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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