1. Unsolicited email, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk email.
2. A single piece of such email: "receiving dozens of spams a day"(George Johnson).
tr.v.spammed, spam·ming, spams
1. To send unsolicited email to.
2. To send (a message) indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups.
[From Spam (probably inspired by a comedy routine on the British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which the word is repeated incessantly).]
spam·mer n.
Spam
(spăm)
A trademark for a canned meat product consisting primarily of chopped pork pressed into a loaf.
'Text spamming is an industry-wide issue, and we acknowledge that Globe Telecom's anti-spam campaign will not be as effective without the help of our customers.
By 2003--4 a motley crew of spammers that ranged from semi-legitimate business entrepreneurs to outright criminals was increasingly being put under pressure by anti-spam filtering systems that used ever more sophisticated algorithms, and by harsher penalties for "spamming".
Sophos' new Dirty Dozen list of spamming countries shows that more than half of all spam messages originate in Asia with South Korea increasingly becoming a hot spot.
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