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  Test robot@i-robot.invalid - 2014-08-13 16:33 +0000
    Re: Test mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2014-08-13 19:00 +0100
    Re: Test Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-08-14 08:08 +0100
      Re: Test Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-08-14 07:49 +0000
        Re: Test "D.D. (Magic Oddball)" <usenet.xyzzyx@EATspamgourmet.com> - 2014-08-14 04:38 -0700
          Re: Test RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-15 15:14 +0000
      Re: Test RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-14 23:19 +0000
        Re: Test Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-08-15 00:26 +0100
        Re: Test David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> - 2014-08-15 10:01 +0100
          Re: Test RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-16 17:01 +0000
            Re: Test David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> - 2014-08-16 18:33 +0100
              Re: Test RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-16 19:24 +0000
                Re: Test David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> - 2014-08-16 20:53 +0100
                  Re: Test Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-16 21:45 +0000
                  Re: Test RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-17 12:53 +0000
        Re: Test Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-08-15 20:17 +0000

#4299 — Test

This is a test

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#4301

On 13/08/2014 17:33, robot@i-robot.invalid wrote:
> This is a test
>
It's not working.

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#4365

robot@i-robot.invalid wrote:

> This is a test

OK so after the test, it seems the floodgate of links scraped from some 
slashdot-alike have opened, who's got time to read them all?

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#4366

On 2014-08-14, Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:
> robot@i-robot.invalid wrote:
>
>> This is a test
>
> OK so after the test, it seems the floodgate of links scraped from some 
> slashdot-alike have opened, who's got time to read them all?

Straight into the killfile.


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#4369

On 08/14/2014 12:49 AM, Huge wrote:
> On 2014-08-14, Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:
>> robot@i-robot.invalid wrote:
>>
>>> This is a test
>>
>> OK so after the test, it seems the floodgate of links scraped from some
>> slashdot-alike have opened, who's got time to read them all?


I don't think either of the /. spinoffs I know of is the source -- I know 
SoylentNews isn't, at least.  The links appear to be too indiscriminately-chosen 
and in many cases much too close to being spam.


> Straight into the killfile.

In cases like this, I think the old moniker "bozo bin" is particularly 
appropriate. ;)


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#4390

In article <Lc1Hv.526925$Ro3.392535@fx13.iad>,
 "D.D. (Magic Oddball)" <usenet.xyzzyx@EATspamgourmet.com> wrote:

> > Straight into the killfile.
> 
> In cases like this, I think the old moniker "bozo bin" is particularly 
> appropriate. ;)

Just to play the devil's advocate, this isn't /exactly/ bozodom, as 
someone is trying to provide useful and relevant content to this 
newsgroup.  I've seen worse spews.  Who's the asshole, for example, who 
seems to be littering the internet on a semi-regular basis with some 
sort of all-caps rant about Silvio Berlusconi being a Mafioso Nazi 
racist, or some such drivel?  It's popped up in every newsgroup I visit, 
unless I use Individual.de's lovely, filtered server.

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#4377

Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:
> robot@i-robot.invalid wrote:
> 
>> This is a test
> 
> OK so after the test, it seems the floodgate of links scraped from some
> slashdot-alike have opened, who's got time to read them all?

They are coming from various sources so it may be someone using an RSS
reader, monitoring several sites, and posting using a script like mine. 
But my immediate reaction is:

1 no valid email address and I prefer knowing our contributor is a person,
not a bot.  People take comments and feedback.
2 too many articles. I'm overwhelmed!
3 I'd personally appreciate more than just the URL - a blurb helps me
decide

Otherwise I'm grateful for the contribution!

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#4378

RS Wood wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> the floodgate of links scraped from some
>> slashdot-alike have opened
>
> They are coming from various sources

I posted earlier (but it seems to have gone into the void) I think it 
was a burst of the Hacker News feed from ycombinator ...

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#4381

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:

> 1 no valid email address and I prefer knowing our contributor is a person,
> not a bot.  People take comments and feedback.

I am not a bot, I am a real person!

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#4420

David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> wrote:
> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:
> 
>> 1 no valid email address and I prefer knowing our contributor is a person,
>> not a bot.  People take comments and feedback.
> 
> I am not a bot, I am a real person!

Hey there David, thanks for adding to the group.  What kind of a script are
you using? Care to share it?

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#4421

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:

> David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> wrote:
>> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:
>> 
>>> 1 no valid email address and I prefer knowing our contributor is a person,
>>> not a bot.  People take comments and feedback.
>> 
>> I am not a bot, I am a real person!
>
> Hey there David, thanks for adding to the group.  What kind of a script are
> you using? Care to share it?

It's an extremely advanced neural net program. Unfortunately it has no
USB interface, so I cannot share it.

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#4423

On 2014-08-16, David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> wrote:
> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:
>
>> David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> wrote:
>>> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:
> It's an extremely advanced neural net program. Unfortunately it has no
> USB interface, so I cannot share it.

Well, I see you're posting from gnus, so you're halfway there.  Probably
just a matter of hacking up a little emacs lisp code and choosing a key
binding.

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#4427

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:

> On 2014-08-16, David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> wrote:
>> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:
>>
>>> David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> wrote:
>>>> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:
>> It's an extremely advanced neural net program. Unfortunately it has no
>> USB interface, so I cannot share it.
>
> Well, I see you're posting from gnus, so you're halfway there.  Probably
> just a matter of hacking up a little emacs lisp code and choosing a key
> binding.

No no, my point was, my email address is obviously not valid, but that
doesn't mean I am a bot. I wasn't implying that I was the offending bot.

Anyway, how can you tell that an email address is valid, and what is to
stop a bot having a valid email address?

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#4432

David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> wrote:
> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:

> > On 2014-08-16, David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> wrote:
> >> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> wrote:
> >>>> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:
> >> It's an extremely advanced neural net program. Unfortunately it
> >> has no USB interface, so I cannot share it.
> >
> > Well, I see you're posting from gnus, so you're halfway there. 
> > Probably just a matter of hacking up a little emacs lisp code and
> > choosing a key binding.

> No no, my point was, my email address is obviously not valid, but that
> doesn't mean I am a bot. I wasn't implying that I was the offending bot.

> Anyway, how can you tell that an email address is valid,

Without sending the address an email, and verifing that the destination
MX server accepted the email, you can't determine validity of an email
address.

The most you can do short of sending an actual email is determine that
the format is allowed by the RFC's.

> and what is to stop a bot having a valid email address?

Nothing at all.

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#4449

In article <7zegwgus6o.fsf@example.com>,
 David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> wrote:
> 
> No no, my point was, my email address is obviously not valid, but that
> doesn't mean I am a bot. I wasn't implying that I was the offending bot.


Got it - now you're communicating clearly.  Your response made it look 
like you were identifying yourself as the person behind the 
i.robot.nowhere.invalid bot.

My complaint about that contribution to the newsgroup is that if it's 
not clear who is injecting the articles, there's no great way to provide 
feedback.  Usenet permits that, but it's not a great way to contribute 
to a community of readers.

My email address on the other hand, is real.  But it's disposable, and I 
change it periodically when it gets too cluttered up with spam.  That 
way I'm reachable, but my real address doesn't get polluted.

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#4398

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:
>> robot@i-robot.invalid wrote:
>> 
>>> This is a test
>> 
>> OK so after the test, it seems the floodgate of links scraped from some
>> slashdot-alike have opened, who's got time to read them all?
> 
> They are coming from various sources so it may be someone using an RSS
> reader, monitoring several sites, and posting using a script like mine. 
> But my immediate reaction is:
> 
> 1 no valid email address and I prefer knowing our contributor is a person,
> not a bot.  People take comments and feedback.
> 2 too many articles. I'm overwhelmed!
> 3 I'd personally appreciate more than just the URL - a blurb helps me
> decide

Yep, unless I'm really really interested in the subject, I tend to
ignore postings with just a url without some comment as to why I
should bother with it.

> 
> Otherwise I'm grateful for the contribution!

I'm not, much too much crud to wade through. TLDR!

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