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sporgeries

sporgeries is the plural of sporgery.

Meaning of sporgery

Noun

sporgery (countable and uncountable, plural sporgeries)

  1. (Internet) 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.
    • Since February the poetry-bot has dominated the discussions, forging the names of legitimate human posters and blindly countering every argument-- pro or con-- with such succinct rebuttals as "Above no cough at no writer every considerate profit addressed," and mind-bending riddles like "Why is...1999 May 6, Kevin Poulsen, “Attack of the Robotic Poets”, in ZDnet

Questions about sporgeries

What is sporgeries the plural of?
Sporgeries is the plural of sporgery.

Words near sporgeries in the dictionary

  1. sporf
  2. sporfle
  3. sporfs
  4. sporge
  5. sporged
  6. sporgeries
  7. sporgery
  8. sporges
  9. sporging
  10. spori-
  11. sporicidal

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