> On Nov 15, 2023, at 13:55, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 15, 2023, 13:39 Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com> wrote:
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> > On Nov 15, 2023, at 12:29, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Unfortunately, this is nothing new and has happened on several occasions over the past weeks. I have no idea what could be causing this issue, but could it be related to reverse proxying paste.lisp.org which is no longer serving pages?
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> I missed the retirement of paste.lisp.org <http://paste.lisp.org/>:  it was running read-only for quite a while.  Was a decision made to shut it down permanently?
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> No, that decision made itself: the ever since the bots have been kicked off Libera, the server has been failing to serve lisppaste as well. The only thing I did after months of failure (which I did note only in arrears; I wasn't actively looking at these failures happening), I took the sbcl out of its misery and just shut it down.

I heard about the “libera.chat bans bots” ambiently over the last couple months. 

I just had the following conversation in #libera-bots

<easye> Mornin' all.  I am trying to get some up-to-date information about the                   
        status of bots being allowed on libera chat networks.  Over the past                     
        couple months, I've heard ambiently that "bots are now banned", but                       
        according to <https://libera.chat/guides/faq#are-bots-allowed> bots                       
        *are* allowed.                                                  [06:14]                   
<easye> Has the policy outlined in the libera faq ("bots allowed with                             
        permission from channel operator") been changed?                [06:19]                   
<moonmoon> hasn't                                                       [06:21]                   
<moonmoon> whether a bot is allowed in a channel is up to the ops of that                         
           channel                                                                               
<easye> moonmoon: thank you for the clarification.                      [06:22]                   
<moonmoon> so if you heard that bots are banned from a particular channel, it                     
           means that. not a network-wide thing                                                 


So, it must be that the operator of #commonlisp that banned the bot?  Who is that at this point? 

Anybody have insight into whatever drama is