[Dxspider-support] Announce spam

[Brian Stucker]

Why suppress part of the spot from going outbound? There could be legit
reasons for this.

Being conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept
(Postal’s Law) is not a good solution to dealing with someone who doesn’t
care about the impact they are having.

The attacker will simply shift tactics and target their attacks from
upgraded nodes using the account of registered users with a clean track
record of spots.

Give people more options of moderating content that they receive as they
see fit. Then the attacker has to go visit every node in the network to
figure out if anyone is seeing their garbage. The nodes that take no action
apparently don’t care. If their users do care then they have other places
they can connect to. The system will shift, and the work of the systems
that get it right will be more users instead of more work.

73,
Brian - KB2S



On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 8:57 AM John Spigel via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> Stephen, Great Idea!
>
> For thought:
> Suppress ALL announcements by unregistered users;
> Suppress passing the content of the comments field by unregistered users
> to other nodes;
> Keep spots local for unregistered users;
> Suppress user first time at node comments field;
>
> 73, John W1AN
> dxc.dxusa.net:7373 (W1DX)
>
>
>
>
> On 03-Mar-23 16:20, Stephen Carroll via Dxspider-support wrote:
>
> I completely agree... what I've done locally on my node is:
>
> acc/ann by_dxcc k,ve
>
> This reduced the announcements I was seeing by 90 percent. Yippee!
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2023, 9:48 AM Mike McCarthy, W1NR via Dxspider-support <
> dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I think we need to address the announce spam one of these days. The
>> worst offender is HG8PRC who is sending an announce for his cluster
>> every 3 minutes. I added him to my bad spotter list.
>>
>> W1NR
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