From: aragorn@chatfactory.invalid   
      
   On Wednesday 31 March 2010 23:38 in alt.os.linux.gentoo, somebody   
   identifying as David W Noon wrote...   
      
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   > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:18:50 +0200, Aragorn wrote about What is wrong   
   > with this newsgroup?:   
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   >> For weeks already now - if not months - I am regularly seeing new   
   >> posts/threads - multiple per day - which are all repeats of older   
   >> posts.   
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   > Some Fidonet BBS has been inserting messages that it had previously   
   > pulled from the newsgroup.  This means it pulls them again, and then   
   > reinserts them yet again, etc., etc.   
      
   Thanks for clearing that up.  I've now set a filter in my newsreader on   
   a substring of the message ID, and that seems to hide most of them. ;-)   
      
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