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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:Arial">Iโ€™m with Kin,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family:Arial">The only things I wonโ€™t pass on my node are spots for/from illegal callsign prefixes (according to the </span><a style="font-family:Arial" href="https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/terrestrial/fmd/Pages/call_sign_series.aspx" target="_blank">ITU list</a><span style="font-family:Arial">) or known fraudulently injected traffic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family:Arial">I give the users everything, let them send anything legitimate and leave the filtering to them as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family:Arial">73 Keith G6NHU</span><br />
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<div name="messageReplySection">On 14 Feb 2025 at 12:00 +0000, Kin via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk>, wrote:<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>There</span></span> <span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>are <span class="SpellE">two</span> <span class="SpellE">perspectives</span> <span class="SpellE">on</span> <span class="SpellE">this</span> <span class="SpellE">issue</span>:</span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><span class="SpellE"><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Those</span></span> <span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><span class="SpellE">who</span> <span class="SpellE">support</span> <span class="SpellE">allowing</span> <span class="SpellE">all</span> <span class="SpellE">information</span> <span class="SpellE">to</span> <span class="SpellE">flow</span> <span class="SpellE">through</span> <span class="SpellE">the</span> <span class="SpellE">network</span>, <span class="SpellE">leaving</span> <span class="SpellE">it</span> <span class="SpellE">to</span> <span class="SpellE">sysops</span> <span class="SpellE">or</span> <span class="SpellE">users</span> <span class="SpellE">to</span> <span class="SpellE">filter</span> <span class="SpellE">it</span>.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>And <span class="SpellE">those</span> <span class="SpellE">who</span> <span class="SpellE">prefer</span> <span class="SpellE">filtering</span> at <span class="SpellE">the</span> <span class="SpellE">source</span> <span class="SpellE">to</span> <span class="SpellE">avoid</span> <span class="SpellE">propagating</span> <span class="SpellE">everything</span>.</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="SpellE"><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>However</span></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>, <span class="SpellE">there</span> <span class="SpellE">is</span> <span class="SpellE">always</span> a <span class="SpellE">middle</span> <span class="SpellE">ground</span>. I <span class="SpellE">believe</span> <span class="SpellE">that</span> <span class="SpellE">if</span> <span class="SpellE">the</span> <span class="SpellE">information</span> <span class="SpellE">is</span> <span class="SpellE">accurate</span>, <span class="SpellE">it</span> <span class="SpellE">should</span> be <span class="SpellE">propagated</span>, <span class="SpellE">but</span> <span class="SpellE">with</span> <span class="SpellE">tools</span> <span class="SpellE">that</span> <span class="SpellE">allow</span> <span class="SpellE">certain</span> <span class="SpellE">types</span> <span class="SpellE">of</span> <span class="SpellE">information</span> <span class="SpellE">to</span> be <span class="SpellE">filtered</span>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>In <span class="SpellE">the</span> case <span class="SpellE">of</span> <span class="SpellE">autospots</span>, a <span class="SpellE">command</span> <span class="SpellE">or</span> <span class="SpellE">filter</span> similar <span class="SpellE">to</span> โ€œ<span class="SpellE">rej</span>/spot <span class="SpellE">when</span> (<span class="SpellE">by</span> <span class="SpellE">eq</span> <span class="SpellE">call</span>)โ€ <span class="SpellE">would</span> be <span class="SpellE">useful</span>. <span class="SpellE">This</span> <span class="SpellE">would</span> <span class="SpellE">allow</span> <span class="SpellE">sysops</span> <span class="SpellE">to</span> <span class="SpellE">apply</span> <span class="SpellE">it</span> in <span class="SpellE">node_default</span> <span class="SpellE">or</span> <span class="SpellE">let</span> <span class="SpellE">users</span> do so <span class="SpellE">themselves</span>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I am <span class="SpellE">not</span> <span class="SpellE">particularly</span> in <span class="SpellE">favour</span> <span class="SpellE">of</span> <span class="SpellE">autospots</span>, <span class="SpellE">but</span> in <span class="SpellE">some</span> cases, <span class="SpellE">they</span> <span class="SpellE">may</span> be <span class="SpellE">justified</span> <span class="SpellE">or</span> <span class="SpellE">permitted</span> <span class="SpellE">by</span> <span class="SpellE">specific</span> <span class="SpellE">contests</span>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Kin EA3CV</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>De:</span></b> <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk> <b>En nombre de</b> Danilo Brelih via Dxspider-support<br />
<b>Enviado el:</b> viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025 12:41<br />
<b>Para:</b> Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk><br />
<b>CC:</b> Danilo Brelih <s50u@s50e.si><br />
<b>Asunto:</b> Re: [Dxspider-support] Startup script</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support je 14.2.2025 ob 12:24 napisal:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>t should be set to 0 by default and then individual sysops can opt out if they want.</span></p>
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<p>Or selfspotting can be turned per Node default to OFF and turned on by each individual user with the command (un)SET/SELFSPOTING as example. In our experience only a few users per Node will show interest for the selfspotting option to be on, believe me. <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji"'>๐Ÿ™‚</span></p>
<p>GL ARRL CW de Dan S50U</p>
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