[Dxspider-support] Fwd: Spider Nodes used by ROS to auto-spot

[Kjell Jarl]

Hi!
I too have seen an increase of logged on users that I never saw before. 
Appearing hard decoded in a user program was new to me, thanks for the 
analysis Laurie.

I wrote to the author asking changing the behaviour of the program, so 
the user has to decide to spot - I am awaiting a response.

I do not consider these spots or users illegal, but it is bad 
advertising for this software.

I think setting ROS as a badword at this stage will limit the 
development of our hobby, it is the wrong way. What next mode or 
propagation should be stopped?

I rather await the author change the program.

73
Kjell
SM7GVF

Henk Remijn PA5KT wrote:
>   Hi,
> Are you aware that your cluster is being used by the new ROS mode 
> program to sned autospost into the cluster network?
> I solved this by putting the word ROS in the badword list.
> Also the quality of the cluster in general could be improved if you 
> enable registration in your cluster.
> This will prevent illegal use and wrong spots.
> 
> See message below.
> 
> 73 Henk PA5KT
> 
> -- 
> Henk Remijn PA5KT
> email: pa5kt at remijn.net
> www: www.pa5kt.com
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Originele bericht --------
> Onderwerp: 	[Dxspider-support] Spider Nodes used by ROS to auto-spot
> Datum: 	Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:56:05 +1000
> Van: 	VK3AMA <vk3ama at gmail.com>
> Antwoord-naar: 	vk3ama.laurie at gmail.com, The DXSpider Support list 
> <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
> Aan: 	The DXSpider Support list <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
> 
> 
> 
> While researching ROS cluster spots arriving at HamSpots.net via the 
> Cluster, I have discovered how the ROS software is auto-spotting to a 
> list of nodes that may be of concern to the Node Sysops.
> 
> The following Spider Node addresses are hard-coded in the software.
> 
> dxc.us6iq.com
> dxc.ham.hr
> 9a0dxc.hamradio.hr
> remo3.renet.ru
> cluster.sk4bw.net
> ax25.org
> sk3w.se
> sector7.nu
> sm7gvf.dyndns.org
> 
> ROS software establishes a connection at startup using your callsign and 
> varies which node it connects to, not always the same node.
> 
> When a qso is logged  a spot is auto generated (there is no option in 
> ROS to turn this off that I could find) and the text of the spot is 
> changed based on another hard-coded list of messages. This is obviously 
> done to give the impression that the spot is sent from a human (unlike 
> the past flooding of the network, same text and same node). No where in 
> the ROS FAQ or User Guide is this behaviour documented.
> 
> I ran ROS in RX mode today, after a callsign was decoded, I hit the log 
> button and it sent a spot to the cluster without permission with my name 
> and call thanking the other station for the QSO.
> 
> A quick review of recent ROS spots shows the same nodes being used and 
> similar style comments.
> 
> What other surprises are hidden in this software?
> 
> de Laurie, VK3AMA
> 
> 
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