Since yesterday dozens of RBN spots (which have nothing to do with DX activities) are being dumped on clusters every minute, paralyzing the operation of these tools… lamentable!
If someone wanted to kill the clusters, they would do like this !
73, Chris F4WBN
Like DQRM, best to ignore and not give the idiots the publicity and acknowledgement they crave.
Hopefully, it has stopped now?
On the dxspider mailinglist it is noted that someone is injecting or convering /P callsigns into non /P calls.
Probably good intentions but likely some AI slop making a mess without understanding the systems…
I guess it is about the normal dxclusters and not the SOTA Cluster?
I use DXSummit, for the past few days(continues this morning) it has been populated with only beacon spots making the site virtually useless. Sad knowing people have such malicious and useless intent. Hope it passes soon.
I don’t think it’s deliberately malicious Stan. I think it’s genuinely people trying to help/add value but not thinking through what the consequences of their actions are. It is bl**dy annoying though.
Problem solved at 13:45 utc .