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disk spamming present participle. Flooding the market with a company's computer disks in an effort to get as many people as possible to install the software or subscribe to the service.

Example Citation:
"About a year ago, AOL stopped disk spamming because their computer system couldn't keep up with the millions of bandwidth-hogging new users they were signing up. But now that they've beefed up their system, they're ready to bombard us with diskettes again."
—Mike Elgan, "Commentary," Mike Elgan's Win Letter

Related Words:
barfmail
disk dancers
meatloaf
occupational spam
spam
spamdexing

Subject Categories:
Business - Marketing
Computers - Programming and Software
Computers - Spam

Posted on November 2, 1998 at 9:42 AM


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