From: aragorn@chatfactory.invalid   
      
   For weeks already now - if not months - I am regularly seeing new   
   posts/threads - multiple per day - which are all repeats of older   
   posts.  It pertains to a conversation between "AZ Nomad"   
   and "someone@gmail.com" in a thread called "Re: Need help deciphering   
   emerge errors".   
      
   The only new thing about the new posts is that previous (limited)   
   headers are included in the message body.  The quoted text and the   
   reply are the same.  All posts simply have a number of "To" and "From"   
   headers in the message body, and the number of these increases with   
   every new post.  The last post to show up like this from "AZ Nomad"   
   shows 244 lines, most of which are those headers and blank spacer   
   lines.   
      
   Also included in the message body is something that looks like this:   
      
   -+- BBBS/LiI v4.01 Flag   
    + Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)   
   -+- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92   
    *  Time Warp of the Future BBS - Cougar, Washington -   
   telnet://time.synchro.net   
      
   ... but repeated like a dozen times.   
      
   This started when a number of strange posts started to appear in what   
   appears to be Arabic, posted by someone who is obviously using   
   Windows - there's a reference to a Windows codepage in his e-mail   
   address.  Several of these posts always show up together with the   
   repeated conversation between the other two posters mentioned.  The   
   posts in Arab script also have such repeated headers and that   
   repeated "BBBS/LiI" thing in them.   
      
   I don't know whether it's some goof-up at Eternal September - my news   
   service - but I imagine that they would have noticed this themselves by   
   now if it were.  So what exactly are we dealing with here?  Is anyone   
   else seeing this too?   
      
   --   
   *Aragorn*   
   (registered GNU/Linux user #223157)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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