Originally, it was repeating the same thing each time. But they caught on that relay operators were blocking that. So the spammers then started copying people's notes to make it more unique and less capable of blocking. While annoying, if anything it's been a good thing to have happened so early in Nostr in order to get proper spam mitigation techniques in place before Nostr goes mainstream. 

 So reply guy IS a spammer and NOT the relay operator saying "get off my relay!" ??? 

 That's correct. It's a spammer abusing the open nature of Nostr. 

 go to poster.place, click on any profile, and see the nice button we have at the bottom to solve the spam crisis 

 So why does removing those 3-4 relays seem to eliminate the reply guy replies?  Is it because the spammer can't see my message being posted to the relay and thus clone it? 

 They are only targeting those relays it seems and/or those relays aren't doing much to stop them 

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