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sporge

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English

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Etymology

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    Back-formation from sporgery.

    Verb

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    sporge (third-person singular simple present sporges, present participle sporging, simple past and past participle sporged)

    1. (intransitive, transitive, computing) 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.
      • 1999 June 25, Fredric L. Rice, “WHAT IS THIS STRANGE LANGUAGE ?!”, in alt.religion.scientology[1] (Usenet):
        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.

    Italian

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    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    sporge

    1. third-person singular present indicative of sporgere

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    Noun

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    sporge

    1. Alternative form of spurge