[Dxspider-support] You are killing all Webclusters!

[Tobias Wellnitz]

Hi all,

my apologies for the slightly provocative email subject, but in the name of
all Web Cluster operators I would like to express our strong concerns and
disagreement about the recently rolled out "source" verification of DX
Spots! This setting does more harm than good. Literally all spots submitted
through web clusters are been dropped since the roleout of
$DXProt::sendverify = 2.
Why? Because web clusters manage their users and their accounts in the web
stack and not in dxspider.

Just to give you an idea about the magnitude: Only my web cluster (
dxheat.com) has >30.000 registered users and has at any time 800 - 1500
connected users. I know that Dxfun and Dxwatch are serving even larger user
bases!

Look at Andrea's table of dropped spots within a day:

+-------+----------+
| SPOTS | NODE     |
+-------+----------+
|   502 | EA4RCH-5 |
|   411 | VE7CC-1  |
|   273 | DH1TW-2  |
|   208 | AE5E     |
|   138 | PY1NB-4  |
|   104 | EA6VQ-2  |
|   103 | DO5SSB-2 |
[...]

Here is the mapping:

EA4RCH-5 -> dxfun.com
DH1TW-2 -> dxheat.com
PY1NB-4 -> dxwatch.com
EA6VQ-2 -> dxmaps.com
DO5SSB-2 -> qrzcq.com/dxtron

As you can imagine, we have put a lot of effort into building and operating
these web clusters. The total number of affected users, which participate
in the dx cluster network through our web services is larger than the
overall users connected via telnet!

We therefore kindly ask you to reconsider and undo the recent changes!

Let jointly keep on discussing other possibilities on how to further harden
together our DX Cluster network!

Thanks & 73,
Tobias, DH1TW
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