On 18 January 2018 at 22:06, Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com> wrote:
Peter Kenny wrote
Are you sure it's a bot? Google the name - there is a real person living near Seattle, with an interest in Smalltalk.
I browsed some other posts from this account to the lists on Nabble. They were more obviously on topic. Also, I met [him] at a Smalltalk conference or two. My experience was that he speaks from a meta level and you have to connect the dots yourself, which can be difficult to follow. IMHO he should not be banned.
I also browsed his history of posts. Their presentation is often strangely formatted and there seems a strange mix of on-topic posts certainly human generated** and off-topic posts that are distinctly bot-like. Its almost like there is a poetry virus riding on his email client. Now in either case regardless whether the latter posts are human or bot generated, they are distracting and not appropriate for the list. The appropriate action would raise these concerns (done) while avoiding easy context triggers and judge the nature of the public response, or private response to the one who raised the original concern. cheers -ben **or generated by a manifestation of the singularity, with whom we should maintain a positive working relationship.