Sporgery
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sporgery-188-2366864
title:
Sporgery
text:
Sporgery is the disruptive act of posting a flood of articles to a Usenet newsgroup, with the article headers falsified so that they appear to have been posted by others. The word is a portmanteau of spam and forgery, coined by German software developer, and critic of Scientology, Tilman Hausherr. Sporgery resembles IRC flooding, which is also intended to disrupt a forum. However, sporgery is not merely disruptive but also deceptive or libellous because it involves falsifying the headers of obje
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Posting a flood of articles to a Usenet group, with falsified headers.
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporgery
date created:
2003-07-06T06:31:52Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T18:13:39Z
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