<div dir="auto">Hi all, <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As a sysop, my job is to provide means and access to accurate and timely information to the users while maintaining the health of my node and the greater cluster. My job is not to inject my opinions on what information is provided, even if I may dislike a mode, format, spotter, etc.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That being said, we provide tools to filter what a user sees. It is their responsibility to learn those tools to control what they may want to see or not see. A quick Google search yields plenty of help to do this. Users can also ask for help, there is plenty of contact info out there with knowledgeable individuals. Filtering accurate information for all users because some individuals do not like something doesn't make sense to me. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Flooding, providing false info, or other abuses to the cluster is our domain as it directly relates to the above sysop responsibilities. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The question is, do we consider auto spotting an abuse to the system or another tool for the user?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">73, Chris WI3W</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 17, 2025, 11:14 Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<font size="4">In the spirit of discouraging client programs
generating spots automatically when they work something, or for
other reasons that make life difficult for sysops and users that
don't use digital modes, I have introduced the following system
variable: <font face="monospace"><b>$<a rel="noreferrer">DXProt::remove_auto_ftx</a> </b></font>which,
as default (in the test branch), is currently set to 1. <br>
<br>
<font face="monospace">DX de WA2JQZ: 28180.0 DL2KBX FT4
DM78<>JO30 14 1415Z
5<br>
DX de G0LZX: 28074.0 W0JJG FT8 -15dB
1265Hz 4 1415Z IO83<br>
DX de CP6UA: 24915.0 CP6UA FT8 FH82jf ->
FH82jf 10 1414Z 10<br>
DX de G0LZX: 28074.0 N9AKR FT8 -13dB from EN61
200Hz 4 1414Z IO83<br>
DX de G0LZX: 28074.0 G0JEI FT8 -20dB
520Hz IO93 1412Z IO83<br>
DX de WA2JQZ: 28180.0 MW7TTA FT4
DM78<>IO73 IO73 1411Z
5<br>
DX de IZ0FYO: 28180.0 9Z4Y FT4 JN61og ->
FK90 FK90 1410Z 15<br>
DX de IZ1PLH: 21076.0 BG0HP FT8 -15 dB from
NL59 23 1410Z JN34<br>
DX de WA2JQZ: 28180.0 OT7X FT4
DM78<>JO10 14 1408Z
5<br>
DX de G0LZX: 28074.0 CE3SOC FT8 -12dB from FF46
1295Hz FF46 1408Z IO83<br>
DX de YC1JEL: 28180.0 RA4M FT4 -04dB
2426Hz LO44 1441Z 28<br>
DX de GM0LIR: 24919.0 6Y7EI FT4 +06dB
1585Hz 8 1442Z IO85<br>
DX de G0LZX: 28074.0 YC1JEA FT8 -07dB from OI33
671Hz <br>
<br>
</font>would become:<br>
<br>
</font><font size="4"><font face="monospace">DX de WA2JQZ:
28180.0 DL2KBX FT4
DM78<>JO30 14 1415Z
5<br>
DX de CP6UA: 24915.0 CP6UA FT8 FH82jf ->
FH82jf 10 1414Z 10<br>
DX de WA2JQZ: 28180.0 MW7TTA FT4
DM78<>IO73 IO73 1411Z
5<br>
DX de IZ0FYO: 28180.0 9Z4Y FT4 JN61og ->
FK90 FK90 1410Z 15<br>
DX de WA2JQZ: 28180.0 OT7X FT4
DM78<>JO10 14 1408Z
5<br>
<br>
</font>It is, of course, likely that these spots that are left are
auto generated too - but at least they provide some useful
information. If it is deemed necessary, I can get rid of these as
well, together with all the other FTx spots if necessary. <br>
<br>
Some people may think this is overkill, but the spot feed is
filling up with more and more useless spots, most of which are
machine generated. Someone has to take a stand. Now where did I
put that wobbly pedestal I bought from the charity shop the other
year? <br>
<br>
</font><font size="4">You should be made aware, the place that this
is currently done, means that these spots are dropped at the
PC11/PC61 protocol level - they won't be passed onward to other
nodes... You may not like that... It doesn't have to work this
way, it could be a user command. Please see the next paragraph. <br>
</font><font size="4"><br>
Someone was complaining that this list is too quiet. Maybe this
will liven it up.<br>
<br>
73 Dirk G1TLH<br>
<br>
PS I just got a bit sick of the lack of "normal" v "FTx" spots
whilst testing the deduping code so I thought "I know, I've
meaning to do this for ages and it's only an extra 8 lines of code
and a few comments".<br>
<br>
<br>
</font>
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