Dave the Resurrector
Dave the Resurrector was a so-called "resurrector bot" that responded to any attempts at canceling a message on the usenet newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse by re-posting the message. It was written by Chris Lewis. The bot is notable as one of the first escalations in the spam arms race. See also
Cancelbot, a process that sends out cancel messages

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