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+13Oct02=======================================================================
+1. A large change has occurred. There is now some (optional) US state recog-
+nition. This is in its early stages but appears to work for me. You will need
+to download the database at http://www.dxcluster.org/download/usdbraw, save it
+in /spider/data and run /spider/perl/create_usdb.pl /spider/data/usdbraw 
+
+BE WARNED this will
+take several minutes. You can do this while the node is running. There is a 
+planned method of keeping the US DB up to date with smaller (ie < 5Mb) patch
+files once a week but you will have to wait a bit for the code to bed down 
+first. You can filter on routes, spots and announces using 'call_state' or
+'by_state' and a comma separated list of state codes. The HELP has been 
+updated (which may help...). 
+
+Once you have run the create_usdb.pl you will need to restart.
+
+If you don't need this, then don't run create_usdb.pl it will simply be
+a waste of time. The run-time version is 24Mb and has 840,000 odd entries
+in it. This does not replace or supplant sh/qrz (sorry Charlie [who put me
+up to this]). 
+
+2. There are a number of other niff-naff changes which I hope will improve
+rather than hinder your user experience (including check forward as well as
+back for those speedy clocked dupes mentioned below).  
+12Oct02=======================================================================
+1. attempt to improve the "check back for 5 minutes to see if this spot is 
+the same as a previous one but for the time spotted" dupe check.
+2. improve the sh/vhftable and sh/hftable commands to allow you to enquire
+by dxcc country (using the relevant prefixes or dxcc country numbers).
+[note to translators, I have changed the help text and Messages tags for
+stat*].
+07Oct02=======================================================================
+1. fix problem with (invalid) callsigns starting with '0' (zero) eg 0f6ira.
+03Oct02=======================================================================
+1. only sysop (priv=5+) can now send to distro SYSOP, ordinary users will have 
+their message routed to the $main::myalias callsign as a private message. 

 29Sep02=======================================================================
 1. Added LRU caching to DXUsers and Prefix.
 2. make Timer::handler only search its chain once a second seeing as that
 29Sep02=======================================================================
 1. Added LRU caching to DXUsers and Prefix.
 2. make Timer::handler only search its chain once a second seeing as that


@@ -5,7 +41,12 @@ is the minimum granularity available.
 3. add some separation between cfg file making, data generation and mrtg 
 running. See /spider/cmd/mrtg.pl for some instructions...
 4. Added data in and out to the MRTG stats, you need to do an indexmaker
 3. add some separation between cfg file making, data generation and mrtg 
 running. See /spider/cmd/mrtg.pl for some instructions...
 4. Added data in and out to the MRTG stats, you need to do an indexmaker

-to get them onto the index page
+to get them onto the index page, I have also added some colour to the
+legend to make what is being displayed a bit more obvious.
+
+See http://gb7djk.dxcluster.org/mrtg/stats.html for an example of the
+default screen.
+

 28Sep02=======================================================================
 1. Put some transparent caching into Prefix.pm to see if this has a 
 performance impact.
 28Sep02=======================================================================
 1. Put some transparent caching into Prefix.pm to see if this has a 
 performance impact.