Re: [Meta] Double posts?

On Sat, 06 May 2006 10:28:35 GMT, "The Eternal Lost Lurker"
<kuraebakayarou.lurkerdrome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Anyone else seeing an inordinate number of double posts? Or is my news
server just failing it?

The @$$#()|3 that's been forging posts with your, my, and others' names
on them also has the capability to cancel posts. I know that some
groups are being shielded from this by 'bots that re-post the cancelled
posts; I don't know whether r.a.a.misc is one of those groups, but if it
is and your NSP doesn't accept cancels, you'll see doubled messages.

(Somebody please quote this to ELL; I believe he still has me in his
killfile...)

Oh, and for the duration of the action against this net-abuser, I've
changed my .sig. Sorry about that, AMG fans...

--
Rob Kelk <http://robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/> e-mail: s/deadspam/gmail/
Any Usenet message claiming to be from me but posted from any server
other than news.individual.net is a forgery. Please filter out such
messages if you have the capability.
.

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