Cancel messages

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3c307f1c$1_6 at news.newsgroups.com>,
Brad Clements <bkc at Murkworks.com> wrote:
>"Aahz Maruch" <aahz at panix.com> wrote in message
>news:a0psh4$nbs$1 at panix3.panix.com...
>>
>> Let's just say that the mental health profession is falling down on the
>> job.  Unfortunately, one of the side effects of these cancel floods is
>> that we get counter-flooded by people resurrecting the original article.
>> If you have any say over your netnews server, you should probably set it
>> up to reject both cancels and resurrections.
>
>But I see one of my posts "Reposted", but I didn't do it.
>Something is "automatically" reposting cancelled messages.

Correct.  When these cancel floods hit, there are bots that
automatically resurrect the canceled posts.
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