What does "sporge" mean?

To engage in sporgery; to post a flood of articles to a Usenet 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.

Sporge

verb

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Definitions

Verb

1
To engage in sporgery; to post a flood of articles to a Usenet 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. intransitive, transitive
"On September 19'th of last year the crooks started sporging other news groups with neo-Nazi and White Supremist text farmed from other news groups."

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"On September 19'th of last year the crooks started sporging other news groups with neo-Nazi and White Supremist text farmed from other news groups."

Etymology

Back-formation from sporgery.

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