Definitions
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- noun Someone who sends
spam . - noun A spring-loaded mechanical
hammer specially adapted to be used in weightlessness (from "space hammer").
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who sends unwanted email (often in bulk)
Etymologies
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Examples
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So, the spammer is removed, making me a self-hater.
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So, the spammer is removed, making me a self-hater.
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A spammer is sending out come-ons offering to buy MySpace profiles with more than 20,000 contacts, presumably to send out more spams through MySpace.
Boing Boing 2006
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AOL will dig for buried platinum and gold in spammer's Mom's yard
Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives 2006
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I just turned in a tag spammer, so gotta go easy on them for awhile.
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And you there, the Dutch spammer from the Chinese ISP?
Grass? What? 2005
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And you there, the Dutch spammer from the Chinese ISP?
Hellooooo! 2005
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Now, if a spammer is blocked, its IP address is blocked for 10 minutes.
Bad Behavior – Updated New Release « Lorelle on WordPress 2005
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Spam pushes people who would proudly (and correctly) trumpet how we shouldn't blame ISPs for offensive web sites, copyright violations and/or MP3 trading done by downstream customers to suddenly call for blacklisting of all the innocent users at an ISP if a spammer is to be found among them.
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Now the spammer is suing the activist to have the information taken down, because he's getting pissed off at tall the junk-mail and crank-calls being directed his way by other spam-haters.
bilby commented on the word spammer
"Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study.
By hijacking a working spam network, US researchers have uncovered some of the economics of being a junk mailer."
- 'Study shows how spammers cash in', BBC website, 10 Nov 2008.
November 10, 2008
bilby commented on the word spammer
Some very dodgy research ethics in there, I note.
November 10, 2008
alexz commented on the word spammer
go to hell spammer
January 13, 2013
bilby commented on the word spammer
C'mon alex, she's got the hots for your suspension fork.
January 13, 2013
deinonychus commented on the word spammer
An unusually efficient spammer too, I had to cut my way through a wall of spam to ger here... And who knows what's buried so deep in spam that it's lost forever? (As far as I see, there is no way of seeing older stuff than what's visible on the first page, is that right?)
January 14, 2013
bilby commented on the word spammer
There used to be an 'older comments' link at the bottom, which was useful for people who took a Wordnik week off and then wanted to catch up to what had been going on. Don't think us mere mortals can access comments beyond first page now, as you say.
January 14, 2013