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Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.

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What is the point of gibberish spam

(It's unlikely that they're trying to "curry favor" with the spam filter, as the thing ("Mollom") is notoriously flaky and happily lets spam through on the first try while rejecting legitimate posts.) … spam is actually intending to do this, and is instigated by someone (a competitor?) …
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Is there a spam storm? [closed]

I've gotten an enormous amount of spam in the past 24 hours (hundreds), even after some relatively good spam filters. … Is this something unique to my email address, or is there a general spam "storm" in the works? …
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Odd spam in a forum

In the forum http://forums.finehomebuilding.com/breaktime/ (same forum that was one of the subjects of this thread) we're seeing a lot of "spam" of a curious sort. … (I suppose some might think that such posts will "trick" the spam blocker into accepting the user, but, honestly, the Mollom spam blocking software is so crummy that this isn't necessary.) …