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sporgery.

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.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

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.

    Internet · countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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

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