^>Hipcrime himself is a sociopath. He distributes, and sometimes
^> runs, a program he wrote called "NewsAgent", which allows you
^> to supersede huge numbers of articles, replacing them with
^> garbage such as you are observing.
^
^I assume that is why I have been seeing (on occasion, not with
^regularity) duplicated articles?
^
^It appears that the title and poster are the same but the body of the
^message is gibberish. At first I thought it was ROT 13 or the like but
^it wasn't.
Yes, that is the source.
^Thankfully it seems to have passed. Since my ISP does not honor outside
^cancels or supercedes I was seeing "double" on and off there for a while.
It passed in your neighborhood. It's still going on in other parts
of the net.
The HipCrime NewsAgent stuff is why there's so much talk about
dropping supersedes altogether. The only reason many people still
are allowing them is for FAQ's, apparently.
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