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spimmer

noun

Etymology

From spim + -er.

  1. borrowed from ^임(林)
  2. compounded as spim — “spam + IM”
  3. suffixed as spimmer — “spim + er”

Definitions

  1. One who sends spim (unsolicited instant messages).

    • Spam in e-mail isn't new. But as barriers to it have succeeded, spimmers have taken fresh aim at IM.
    • Most forecasters are predicting that spim will spin out of control as soon as spimmers find a way to abscond with large numbers of IM screen names, which are not as readily available as e-mail addresses.
    • Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spimmer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA