spam
[from the MUD community] vt.
- To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with
excessively large input data. See
also buffer overflow, overrun screw, smash the stack.
- To cause a newsgroup to be flooded with irrelevant or inappropriate
messages. You can
spam a newsgroup with as little as one well- (or ill-) planned
message (e.g. asking "What do
you think of abortion?" on soc.women). This is often done with
cross-posting (e.g. any
message which is crossposted to alt.rush-limbaugh and
alt.politics.homosexuality will
almost inevitably spam both groups).
(definition from The Jargon File)