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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Blend of spam + forgery; coined by Tilman Hausherr in 1999 on the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup.
