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
   • Nobody's going to mistake any of the fakes for the real you once they hear a few words, of course, but there's no easy way for them to tell which is which without listening to them all in turn. Which means, in all likelihood, that many of them will never find the real you. If it happens often...1999 September 16, Daniel Rutter, “Gibbering clones the future of Usenet?”, in Australian IT