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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>sporgery</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="spool-file.html" title="spool file"/><link rel="next" href="sport-death.html" title="sport death"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">sporgery</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="spool-file.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="sport-death.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="sporgery"/><dt xmlns="" id="sporgery"><b>sporgery</b></dt></dt><dd><p> [portmanteau of ‘spam’ or ‘spew’ and
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‘forgery’. Massive floods of forged articles intended to
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disrupt a newsgroup. Typically these have reasonable-looking headers but
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complete gibberish for content, making the legitimate articles too
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difficult to find. This tactic has been most notoriously used by the
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Church of Scientology to disrupt discussion on the newsgroup <tt class="systemitem">alt.religion.scientology</tt>, but is
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