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Re:Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking f... by schoen on Thursday January 21, 2016 @09:05PM (#10950265)
You can opt out of some of them with _nomap (maybe not all). https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ssid+nomap
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Re:Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking f... by FireBeyond on Thursday January 21, 2016 @09:51PM (#10950447)
Yeah, that's a horrific abomination.

Why not "SSID_mappable"?

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Re:Why do people keep coming to this couple’s home looking f... by knughit on Friday January 22, 2016 @12:06AM (#10950865)
Because _nomap gets 99.999% coverage, and _mappable would get 0.001% coverage.
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