spamorass
The other day I was pondering some details of a project that I am considering getting started — the details don't really matter here except to know that the project would invite public participation through an automated web interface.
Naturally, such an arrangement could very well become a spam magnet, so the system would have to have a strategy to help avoid the whole thing turning into something that I was thinking of, tentatively, as a "spam swamp", which seemed to bring appropriate images to mind for me. You know these places when you see them, like unattended blogs with mile after mile of viagra comment spam; like the abandoned house with one broken window, they seem to attract swarms of spammers to break every window they can.
It struck me today that perhaps "spamorass" was the word I was looking for.
It seems to me to elide the right concepts into a suitable vocalise that feels right in my mouth for this concept. It also sounds, if not pejorative, then at least not terribly nice. It also has the virtue of returning not a single Google hit as I write this.
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on Monday, 28 January 2008 at 17.29
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I like it, although I think "spamorass" does sound pejorative.
Ah, the spammers. Someday, someone is going to get up a vigilante group and . . . It's too ghastly for specifics. Heh.
on Tuesday, 29 January 2008 at 01.14
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Great portmanteau word. "Portmanteau" is pretty good too, of course. Might efforts to rid the world of spam be referred to as "spamicide"?