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UCE N. [abbrev., Unsolicited Commercial Email] A Widespread, More Formal Term For Email Spam.
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UCE n.
[abbrev., Unsolicited Commercial Email] A
widespread, more formal term for email spam. Compare
UBE, which may be superseding it.
Related:
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....
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....
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....
By sending unsolicited, commercially oriented email to this address, the sender agrees to pay a fee of USD 2.
50 per line for proofreading services....
hitogram: /shit'oh-gram/ n. A *really* nasty piece of email.
Compare {nastygram}, {flame}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
hitogram /shit'oh-gram/ n. A really nasty piece of email. Compare nastygram, flame.
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....
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....