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

[Martin Davies G0HDB]

On 12 Dec 2015 at 22:34, 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

I regularly (typically quite a few times a week) do a sh/co (and/or a sh/co/no), either for my 
local GB7DXC-5 node or for another node, to see who's logged-on and where.  I've got 'sh/co 
gb7dxc' included in my login scripts so that every time I log in I can see who's connected not 
only to GB7DXC-5 but also to the legacy GB7DXC node.   It's a useful facility to have and I 
would be disappointed if the information wasn't kept up-to-date in something like 
near-real-time.

I also occasionally use talks to communicate with and have a chat with a user, most often on 
GB7DXC-5 but sometimes with a user on another node.  

I don't know how much use the local users on 'DXC-5 make of the talk and personal 
messaging facilities but I suspect it's not much - I've just done a 'dir' from the sysop console 
on 'DXC-5 and it's come back with 'No messages found'.  I've also done a 'sh/files bulletins' 
and that's come back with 'bulletins not found'.  However both of those responses might be 
because I haven't yet configured something on 'DXC-5...!!

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73, Martin G0HDB


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