sporgery
sporgery · sporgeries
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.
Meaning
1 senses(Internet, countable, uncountable)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.
Origin
Blend of spam + forgery; coined by Tilman Hausherr in 1999 on the alt.religion.scientologyBlend of spam + forgery; coined by Tilman Hausherr in 1999 on the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup.
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Forms
plural: sporgeries| Singular | sporgery |
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Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable