Whats all this nonsense with "REPOST" in the subject line?

NONE of these posts are "reposts at all! Who started this rubbish?

 

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It appears that someones anti-spam cancelbot was cancelling messages
that weren't spam. They are now reposting those mistakenly cancelled
messages.
I think there may be more going on as the volume of posts seem to be
way down in the last few days. Anyone else notice?

 

A post I made to nevill showed up as a repost and the orig. had an
error message under it(message may have expired)(click here to remove
all expired messages)??. What ever happened, looks like they are
trying to fix it.

 

Old Gringo wrote:
|| cluedweasel wrote:
||| On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:07:27 -0000, "Gordon"
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|||| NONE of these posts are "reposts at all! Who started this rubbish?
||||
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||| It appears that someones anti-spam cancelbot was cancelling messages
||| that weren't spam. They are now reposting those mistakenly cancelled
||| messages.
||| I think there may be more going on as the volume of posts seem to be
||| way down in the last few days. Anyone else notice?
|| A post I made to nevill showed up as a repost and the orig. had an
|| error message under it(message may have expired)(click here to remove
|| all expired messages)??. What ever happened, looks like they are
|| trying to fix it.
||

Interestingly some messages with "REPOST" in the subject line also appeared
in the MS News server newsgroups - one theory was that a "rogue" server
somewhere was actually "reposting" messages from a couple of days ago.....