On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 3:53 AM NIKOLAOS FOTIOY <fotiou@aueb.gr> wrote:
> I think we are losing the context here. The problem is that certain
> perfectly identifiable individuals spam the list with mostly meaningless,
> self-promotional content. For example, every couple of messages I receive
> some web 7.0 irrelevant, non sense. AI tools have just made their job
> easier to generate content. Blaming AI tools is just a polite way to say to
> those individuals “please stop you are creating too much noise”
>
+1 -- Nikos has nailed it.
Maybe the solution here is to fall back to what we've done to these sorts
of engagements in the past:
Politely ask them to stop... and if they don't stop, politely ask them to
leave... and if they don't leave, ban them from the mailing list.
To be clear, I don't think we are anywhere near the latter two steps... I
think we're at the "politely ask them to stop" phase -- and we've already
had good responses by at least two out of the three parties that have been
called out.
I do commend the community for being so polite about it... while it can be
far more painful to be polite, and there is a limit to that politeness --
it's one of the best qualities of this particular group of people on the
mailing list.
-- manu
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