sporgery

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The disruptive act of posting a flood of articles to a newsgroup, the article headers having been falsified so as to make the articles appear to have been posted by people other than the true poster.

Word forms

sporgery sporgeries

Etymology

Blend of spam + forgery; coined by Tilman Hausherr in 1999 on the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup.

Related words

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