[Dxspider-support] DXSpider mojo update

Joaquin joaquin at cronux.net
Thu Nov 24 10:24:26 GMT 2022


The tests with the new build 448 have been more than satisfactory.

Now to wait for the nodes to be updated. In the last query there are 
still few updated:

  DL8FCL-7     5457    448   Yes       Yes
  DU3TW-1      5457    448   Yes       Yes
  EA2CW-2      5457    448   Yes       Yes
  EA3CV-2      5457    448   Yes       Yes
  EA3CV-3      5457    448   Yes       Yes
  EA4URE-2     5457    448   Yes       Yes
  EA4URE-3     5457    448   Yes       Yes
  EA4URE-5     5457    448   Yes       Yes
  G4ELI-9      5457    448   Yes       Yes
  GB7MBC       5457    448   Yes       Yes
  IK5ZUK-6     5457    448   Yes       Yes
  IK7NXU-6     5457    448   Yes       Yes
  IK8HJC-6       54    448   Yes       Yes
  IZ5FSA-6     5457    448   Yes       Yes
  JG1VGX-9     5457    448   Yes       Yes
  VE3CGR-5     5457    448   Yes       Yes
  W8BS-2       5457    448   Yes       Yes
  WB3FFV-2       54    448   Yes       Yes

Thank you very much Dirk.

Kin EA3CV


El 24/11/2022 a las 0:57, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support escribió:
> In the light of some nastiness that seems increasingly to happen 
> during major contests, and after several requests, I have revamped the 
> "BadWords" system to be all "regex" based (a.k.a badw_regex) and done 
> away with both the badword and badw_regex files. These have been 
> replaced with a file called badword.new which now contains a simple 
> list of "words", some of which are instantly recognisable and others 
> which look misspelled - as they don't seem to have enough consonants. 
> They are what I call word "stems".
>
> This file is interesting, but is not (normally) sysop maintained. It 
> is maintained and generated by the set/badword and unset/badword 
> commands which will take words that you think are bad; which add or 
> remove them from the system. You can list the current ones with 
> show/badwords. There is a default list of words that is installed by 
> the update automatically.
>
> Internally these word "stems" are converted in perl regexes which will 
> match this sort of thing:
>
> So the stem "SOD" regex looks like:
>
> SOD = \bS+[\s\W]*[O0]+[\s\W]*D
>
> This will match: sod SOD s0D sods Sodding s0dd1nnnng etc
>
> Another example might be:
>
> TERORIST = 
> \bT+[\s\W]*E+[\s\W]*R+[\s\W]*[O0]+[\s\W]*R+[\s\W]*[I1]+[\s\W]*S+[\s\W]*T
>
> This will obviously match the very bad spelled 'terorist', but also: 
> TERRORIST terr0r1st 'TeeeErro0r 11ii1sts' etc.
>
> ***
>
> It would be good to get as many sysops to update ASAP (i.e. before the 
> weekend) as this will cut down on the distribution of some quite 
> offensive (mainly Spanish at the moment) entirely made up spots.
>
> ***
>
> There is (English) help available for the {set,unset,show}/badword 
> commands. There are also some remarks worth reading in the Changes 
> file. The command 'load/badword' still does what always did, but you 
> should not need to use it any more. These commands are all sysop only 
> and cannot be accessed remotely.
>
> If a user "swears" then a message will appear in the debug file which 
> can be tracked with 'watchdbg swore'. By default, if a user uses three 
> swear words they are automatically disconnected. This count persists 
> during the whole session, so a user can use them up by using three 
> (different) bad words in one announce command or use the same (or 
> different) one over three commands minutes or hours apart over a 
> session. This limit can be changed with a 'set/var 
> $DXCommandmode::maxbadcount = <number>' command at runtime or in the 
> startup file. This limit only affects locally connected users. 
> Incoming PC protocol that trigger a badword are just dropped.
>
> As far as a locally connected user is concerned, it appears as though 
> the offending commands have worked, in that they appear on their 
> screen. Well, at least until they use too many and are logged out.
>
> If you are a sneaky sort of sysop you can set maxbadcount to 0, which 
> will not log the user out, thus giving the impression that all is fine 
> - but nothing is sent out to other locally connected users or nodes.
>
> Enjoy.
>
> 73 Dirk G1TLH
>
> PS This is the first on my list of fixes / enhancements, so there will 
> be further updates for other known issues over the next few weeks.
>
>
>
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