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Chuma: I know the spam was annoying as hell, but swinging the other way and filtering ALL comments is just as crappy.

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  1. noun Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk e-mail.
  2. transitive verb To send unsolicited e-mail to.
  3. transitive verb To send (a message) indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups.

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  • Otherwise, your email will be classified as a spam. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • I think what we'll see is that the purpose and intent of Conflicker is to deploy a whole plethora of secondary malware -- spam, Trojans, key loggers, distributed denial-of-service attacks, adware, etcetera, etcetera. —  ABC7 News
  • The anti-spam organization says that while all networks claim to be against spam, some look the other way to sell services to spammers and others choose not to close holes in their systems because doing so would be expensive. —  TechWeb
  • "The product delivers anti-spam, anti-phishing, and anti-virus with Cloudmark's high degree of accuracy," says Cloudmark CTO Jamie de Guerre. —  ISP-Planet
  • The two discuss issues such as spam, the search engine optimization (seo) philosophy as a whole and its problematic frictions between publishers and users in the battles for visibility and search relevance. —  Search Engine Watch Blog
 

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  1. From Spam (probably inspired by a comedy routine on the British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which the word is repeated incessantly).
 

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