Etymology

sporgery

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

First used 1999
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The story

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

First known use, by meaning

  • from 1999 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.

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