Posted by Ben Coman on Jan 18, 2018; 3:27pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/unsolicited-package-cache-use-tp5060335p5063474.html

On 18 January 2018 at 22:06, Sean P. DeNigris <[hidden email]> 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.