[drats_users] Repeater traffic view

[Dan Smith]

> This is a very important thing to create a real "node". I think
> hearded stations list will be useful to improve D-RATS routing
> capabilities.

Well, I'm not sure how displaying the list would help the routing
capabilities themselves, but I agree it would be neat to look at.

> I want to suggest to introduce the chat room concept, a sort of 
> "separate-but-not-private room" in wich people can enter in and make 
> qso-cafè using routing capabilities without affecting the "main room"
> of a ratflector... if you are in the room you can read&write, 
> otherwise you dont'se anything. To do that we had to create an auto 
> updating chat-room-list like the station hearded one. The repeater 
> with chat node capabilities can manage traffic addressing it only to 
> the useful destination, without affecting unuseful ports with 
> undesiderable traffic.
> 
> What do you think about?
> Do you think it's a good idea?

It's an interesting idea, but I'll have to think more about how it would
really be implemented.  Since the current protocol doesn't have
hierarchical addressing, it would be hard to make something like this
cascade beyond a single ratflector without losing the efficiency of only
sending packets where they need to go.

I'll have to think about it a little.

> PS: I've readed on QST you're the tech award winner!!! Congratulations, Dan!!

Thanks! :)

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