[Dxspider-support] Where have all the talk and announcement messages gone?

[Ron Gibson]

Hi Dirk,
I've noticed the same thing, especially the lack of bulletins.
73 de Ron
VE3CGR

On 12/12/2015 5:34 PM, djk wrote:
> Is it just me or does no-one much bother announcing things or use talk 
> messages anymore? Come to that, what about bulletins and personal 
> messages?
>
> I ask because most of the (non-WPX) internode traffic is there to keep 
> track of who is connected to which node to facilitate stuff like talk 
> and personal message routing. We could get rid of all the "real-time" 
> add/delete user to node messages and, with minimum software changes on 
> my part, still get this stuff through in a timely and reasonably 
> efficient manner. It would noticeably reduce the inter node bandwidth 
> requirements.
>
> Does anyone really care anymore as who is connected where? When was 
> the last time anyone a) did a sh/c and b) actually looked carefully at 
> the output?
>
> Dirk G1TLH
>
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