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UBE // N. [abbrev., Unsolicilted Bulk Email] A Widespread, More Formal Term For Email Spam.
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UBE // n.
[abbrev., Unsolicilted Bulk Email] A
widespread, more formal term for email spam. Compare
UCE. The UBE term recognizes that spam is uttered by nonprofit
and advocacy groups whose motives are not commercial.
Related:
UCE n. [abbrev., Unsolicited Commercial Email] A widespread, more formal term for email spam.
Compare UBE, which may be superseding it....
pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
velveeta n. [Usenet: by analogy with spam] Also knows as ECP
a message that is excessively cross-posted, as opposed to spam which is too frequently posted....
hrowaway account n. 1. An inexpensive Internet account purchased on a legitimate ISP for the the sole purpose of spewing spam.
2. An inexpensive Internet account obtained for the sole purpose of doing something which requires a valid email address but being able to ignore spam since the user will not look at the account again....
jello n. [Usenet: by analogy with spam] A message that is both excessively cross-posted and too frequently posted
as opposed to spam (which is merely too frequently posted) or velveeta (which is merely excessively cross-posted)....
mailbomb: (also mail bomb) [USENET] 1. v. To send, or urge others to send, massive amounts of {email} to a single system or person, esp.
with intent to crash or {spam} the recipient's system....
mailbomb (also mail bomb) [Usenet] 1. v. To send, or urge others to send, massive amounts of email to a single system or person, esp.
with intent to crash or spam the recipient's system....
Spam Spam Spam Spam, Spammity Spammmm, Spam, Spam, Spam
address harvester n. A robot that searches web pages and/or filters netnews traffic looking for valid email addresses.
Some address harvesters are benign, used only for compiling address directories....