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wmass bot

The wmass bot operates using the meshcore-bot software and is configured only to listen on the #test and #ma-test channels. Bots can be helpful to users to confirm connectivity to the mesh and explore the paths that their signal might take, but bots can also cause a lot of unnecessary traffic on the mesh as well. Working to be as low impact as possible, the wmass bot will:

  • Only answer clients 6 or fewer hops away. Answering a user in PA during a ducting event is pointless.
  • Scope all replies to “pv” - Pioneer Valley Region. Repeaters that observe scopes will not unnecessarily propagate the replies.
  • Ignore clients with 1-byte path hash size.
  • Only answer basic connectivity commands like “ping”, “test”, “trace”, etc while ignoring the useless “sports”, “joke”, “fortune”, etc commands. There are better ways to get this information if you need it.
  • Reply with only the necessary information without extra humor/commentary.