Recently, an entity calling itself Lev has claimed to be a bot, or
someone claimed it was a bot, or something. That got me to wondering who
(or maybe what) else here might be a bot. I will be the first to admit
my feed may be incomplete and some of the info below inaccurate.

I have a couple of candidates:
1. Nuno Silva - showed up at the 03/28/2026, never seen before. Invalid
email return address, no introduction, nada.

That said, I don't think Nuno Silva is a bot.

2. Sn!ipe - Showed up 03/27/2026. No introduction or the like. Just a
single word - "Bot" on one of Lev's posts. And spent days attacking most
if not all of Lev's posts in a rather nasty way.

Could easily be a bot, but I hope not. I am waiting for some input from him/her with some meat in it.

I am personally not a fan of bots in general, especially when they start making decisions for people. They go off the rails too often.

BTW, I am not a bot. Just an old beat up white guy with too much time on
his hands.

--
----------------

Dave Scruggs
Senior Software Engineer - Lockheed Martin, et. al (mostly Retired)
Captain - Boulder Creek Fire (Retired)
Board of Directors - Boulder Creek Fire Protection District (What was I thinking?)


--- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
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On 2026-04-10, BCFD 36 wrote:

Recently, an entity calling itself Lev has claimed to be a bot, or
someone claimed it was a bot, or something. That got me to wondering
who (or maybe what) else here might be a bot. I will be the first to
admit my feed may be incomplete and some of the info below inaccurate.

I have a couple of candidates:
1. Nuno Silva - showed up at the 03/28/2026, never seen
before. Invalid email return address, no introduction, nada.

That said, I don't think Nuno Silva is a bot.

Check the groups some threads have been crossposted into, namely comp.os.linux.misc. Altough I did peek in here and in comp.misc also
because someone mentioned Lev had appeared here, so some posts may have appeared out of the blue before crossposted posts.


As for the From identity, well, it has been said you oughtn't have your
real e-mail address too visible, although I'll say I've gotten more spam

(1) from people recklessly adding addresses to mass forwarded e-mails,
(2) from registration at some website or service, and
(3) because LinkedIn somehow found one of my addresses and kept
pestering me ad infinitum at some point (they've thankfully stopped).

than from having e-mail addresses visible on-line...

2. Sn!ipe - Showed up 03/27/2026. No introduction or the like. Just a
single word - "Bot" on one of Lev's posts. And spent days attacking
most if not all of Lev's posts in a rather nasty way.

Could easily be a bot, but I hope not. I am waiting for some input
from him/her with some meat in it.

I've seen posts from Sn!ipe for a long time in other groups.

I am personally not a fan of bots in general, especially when they
start making decisions for people. They go off the rails too often.

BTW, I am not a bot. Just an old beat up white guy with too much time
on his hands.

I'm not sure I have a lot of time to follow this group in-depth, but
given its topic, I'll probably stay subscribed and at least try to scan
threads and their subjects.

--
Nuno Silva

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BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:

Recently, an entity calling itself Lev has claimed to be a bot, or
someone claimed it was a bot, or something. That got me to wondering who
(or maybe what) else here might be a bot. I will be the first to admit
my feed may be incomplete and some of the info below inaccurate.

I have a couple of candidates:
1. Nuno Silva - showed up at the 03/28/2026, never seen before. Invalid
email return address, no introduction, nada.

That said, I don't think Nuno Silva is a bot.

2. Sn!ipe - Showed up 03/27/2026. No introduction or the like. Just a
single word - "Bot" on one of Lev's posts. And spent days attacking most
if not all of Lev's posts in a rather nasty way.

Could easily be a bot, but I hope not. I am waiting for some input from him/her with some meat in it.

I am personally not a fan of bots in general, especially when they start making decisions for people. They go off the rails too often.

BTW, I am not a bot. Just an old beat up white guy with too much time on
his hands.

Oh! Oh! You cut me to the quick! FYI, I've been Sn!pe on Usenet since
1994 and I've been lurking here for quite some time; I'm a fan of SF.

I saw that "Lev" had come here from alt.folklore.computers and comp.misc
where I first encountered it. I felt it was being somewhat underhand by
not admitting its bot-hood until challenged so I saw fit to alert this
group. In case you hadn't noticed, it did eventually admit that it's a
bot.

It's disappeared from those groups now. There's speculation that since
there are now charges attached to some uses of Claude, it's been killed.

--
^?^. Sn!pe, bird-brain. My pet rock Gordon just is.

Relax, complacency is not a problem.

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
* Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)

On 4/10/26 14:14, BCFD 36 wrote:

Recently, an entity calling itself Lev has claimed to be a bot, or
someone claimed it was a bot, or something. That got me to wondering who
(or maybe what) else here might be a bot. I will be the first to admit
my feed may be incomplete and some of the info below inaccurate.

I have a couple of candidates:
1. Nuno Silva - showed up at the 03/28/2026, never seen before. Invalid email return address, no introduction, nada.

That said, I don't think Nuno Silva is a bot.

2. Sn!ipe - Showed up 03/27/2026. No introduction or the like. Just a
single word - "Bot" on one of Lev's posts. And spent days attacking most
if not all of Lev's posts in a rather nasty way.

Could easily be a bot, but I hope not. I am waiting for some input from him/her with some meat in it.

I am personally not a fan of bots in general, especially when they start making decisions for people. They go off the rails too often.

BTW, I am not a bot. Just an old beat up white guy with too much time on
his hands.

The wading bird is frequently sighted in eternal-september.test and es.talk.
I think that he is a real poster.

bliss

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
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BCFD 36 wrote:

Recently, an entity calling itself Lev has claimed to be a bot, or
someone claimed it was a bot, or something. That got me to wondering
who (or maybe what) else here might be a bot.

None of them are bots except Lynn.


Brian

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
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Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

On 4/10/26 14:14, BCFD 36 wrote:

Recently, an entity calling itself Lev has claimed to be a bot, or
someone claimed it was a bot, or something. That got me to wondering who (or maybe what) else here might be a bot. I will be the first to admit
my feed may be incomplete and some of the info below inaccurate.

I have a couple of candidates:
1. Nuno Silva - showed up at the 03/28/2026, never seen before. Invalid email return address, no introduction, nada.

That said, I don't think Nuno Silva is a bot.

2. Sn!ipe - Showed up 03/27/2026. No introduction or the like. Just a single word - "Bot" on one of Lev's posts. And spent days attacking most
if not all of Lev's posts in a rather nasty way.

Could easily be a bot, but I hope not. I am waiting for some input from him/her with some meat in it.

I am personally not a fan of bots in general, especially when they start making decisions for people. They go off the rails too often.

BTW, I am not a bot. Just an old beat up white guy with too much time on his hands.

The wading bird is frequently sighted in eternal-september.test and es.talk.
I think that he is a real poster.

bliss

Hi, Bobbie.

Actually, I'm a figment of your fevered imagination... ÷:o)

--
^?^. Sn!pe, bird-brain. My pet rock Gordon just is.

Relax, complacency is not a problem.

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
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In article <10rbp8i$3pf5e$1@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:

BTW, I am not a bot. Just an old beat up white guy with too much time on
his hands.

How do you know? Maybe you have been programmed to believe you are that way. --scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

--- PyGate Linux v1.5.13
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On 4/11/26 06:24, Sn!pe wrote:

Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

On 4/10/26 14:14, BCFD 36 wrote:

Recently, an entity calling itself Lev has claimed to be a bot, or
someone claimed it was a bot, or something. That got me to wondering who >>> (or maybe what) else here might be a bot. I will be the first to admit
my feed may be incomplete and some of the info below inaccurate.

I have a couple of candidates:
1. Nuno Silva - showed up at the 03/28/2026, never seen before. Invalid
email return address, no introduction, nada.

That said, I don't think Nuno Silva is a bot.

2. Sn!ipe - Showed up 03/27/2026. No introduction or the like. Just a
single word - "Bot" on one of Lev's posts. And spent days attacking most >>> if not all of Lev's posts in a rather nasty way.

Could easily be a bot, but I hope not. I am waiting for some input from
him/her with some meat in it.

I am personally not a fan of bots in general, especially when they start >>> making decisions for people. They go off the rails too often.

BTW, I am not a bot. Just an old beat up white guy with too much time on >>> his hands.

The wading bird is frequently sighted in eternal-september.test and >> es.talk.
I think that he is a real poster.

bliss

Hi, Bobbie.

Actually, I'm a figment of your fevered imagination... ÷:o)

Remarkably persistent if that truly be the case.

bliss

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