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2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
sporgery
2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
[portmanteau of spam or spew and forgery. Massive floods of forged articles
intended to disrupt a newsgroup. Typically these have reasonable-looking
headers but complete gibberish for content, making the legitimate articles
too difficult to find. This tactic has been most notoriously used by the
Church of Scientology to disrupt discussion on the newsgroup
alt.religion.scientology , but is unfortunately not by any means confined to
that group.