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sporgery

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from fabricō
  2. derived from forgier
  3. derived from forger
  4. derived from forgen
  5. compounded as sporgery — “spam + forgery”

Definitions

  1. The disruptive act of posting a flood of articles to a newsgroup, the article headers…

    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.

    • Tilman Hausherr, a daily contributor to alt.religion.scientology, coined the word 'sporgeries' (spam-forgeries), and promoted software to kill the unwelcome messages.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sporgery. 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