Definitions
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- noun Internet, 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. - noun Internet, countable An instance of sporgery.
Etymologies
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Blend of spam and forgery; coined by Tilman Hausherr
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The Co$ practically invented the Hipcrime sporgery [wikipedia. org] attack technique that still plagues USENET to this day.
Slashdot 2009
metaeuphoria commented on the word sporgery
spam + forgery
August 17, 2007