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spimming

noun

Etymology

From spim + -ing.

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

Definitions

  1. The sending of spim.

    • 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 spimming. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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