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Emailer whose missives are usually unwanted
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spammer
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n. 1 (context computing internet English) Someone who sends spam. 2 A spring-loaded mechanical hammer specially adapted to be used in microgravity (from "outer space hammer").
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n. someone who sends unwanted email (often in bulk)
Usage examples of spammer.
Some spammers hack into unsecured servers - mainly in China and Korea - to relay their missives anonymously.
Greene calculated that his efforts - incorporating the newest and sneakiest tricks of direct-mail spammers - would spawn no fewer than ten thousand copies of the massive file by the end of the first hour.
List blockers, report and complaint generators, advocacy groups, registers of known spammers, and spam filters all proliferate.
Most experts, though, strongly urge spam victims not to respond to spammers, lest their e-mail address is confirmed.
The FTC - the US Federal Trade Commission - has taken legal action against more than 100 spammers for promoting scams and fraudulent goods and services.
Moreover, dominant ISP's, such as AT&T and PSINet have recurrently been accused of knowingly collaborating with spammers.
In fact, it would be fair to say that without us net vigilantes, the Internet would probably grind to a halt from the load these spammers would place on it.
This avalanche immediately alerts the sysadmins of the ISP to the presence of a spammer, and good-bye spam account.