[aprssig] Throttleing EchoLink Objects

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:

> If this is another region or worse, a direct connection to one 
> of the central servers, the object has made the leap from local to global 
> once again.
>
> Unless we invent some new kind of backward-compatible object definition that 
> doesn't gate to the Internet (EVER, not just via servers that support the 
> "magic" paths), I don't see a way to prevent this sort of cross-contamination 
> (if you want to call it that) traffic.

Most servers support the magic "NOGATE" and "RFONLY" paths.  Those
that don't could have it added as we find them, as long as the
author isn't SK.  Not that big of a deal.

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