Generally considered offensive; displaying the same words repeatedly so as to interfere with the normal conversation in a virtual world Can also refer to flooding another player's email with unwanted messages
Indiscriminately sending a message to hundreds or thousands of people on the Internet An inappropriate use of a mailing list or USENET for sending unsolicited messages to a large amount of users Not good netiquette
Spamming is the unsolicited broadcast of an e-mail to a large number of people The most common occurrence of spamming is unsolicited e-mails that are generally advertisements Spamming is a violation of Netiquette
Blatant advertising or the posting of off-topic messages to newsgroups or emailboxes, after which a flame war usually erupts, resulting in more spamming Spamming disrupts the usefulness of the Internet Sending spam is B-A-D
The posting of either a single article multiple times to one or more newsgroups, the posting of a single article to multiple newsgroups (especially with off-topic messages), or multiple articles to multiple groups Also, spamming can be done via Email with either a user receiving multiple copies of a message ("mail bombing") or many different users at a site receiving the same message ("junk mail") Content is meaningless, it is the action itself and the results that is considered Spam For many syst em administrators no reason, even the saving of a life, is considered justification for such an action
The act of sending hundreds of inappropriate postings to Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists Do it and you'll seriously regret it Some people new to the internet do not recognize spam Be aware that chain letter promsing thousands of dollars just by sending a dollar to the names on a list are illegal - no matter what the text says Letting a "few" people know your URL (in this case, a few being the thousands of people exposed to multiple messages across usenet) is spamming Spamming is a violation of the Internet America terms of service, and can result in your account being cancelled or suspended Don't do it!
the practice of sending advertisements to large groups of people by simply sending them to all the listservs possible
Using any search engine ranking technique which causes a degradation in the quality of the results produced by the search engines Examples of spamming include excessive repetition of a keyword in a page, optimizing a page for a keyword which is unrelated to the contents of the site, using invisible or tiny text, etc Most search engines will penalize a page which uses spamming Also called spamdexing In a different context, spamming is also used to mean the practice of sending unsolicited bulk email
Sending copies of the same message to large numbers of newsgroups on the Internet
Usually advertising, this is sending out the same message to many newsgroups or mailinglists See flaming
The practice of sending messages to newsgroups and mailing lists repeatedly and indiscriminately
This is the practice of sending unsolicited commercial e-mail messages in bulk or purposely overloading someone's mailbox with messages
To cross-post to newsgroups with no regard for whether or not the subject matter is relevant to that being discussed on the group Often, these sorts of postings are blatant advertisements with titles such as Make money fast!