Sporgery

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  sporgery [portmanteau of `spam' or `spew' and `forgery'. Massive floods
     of forged articles intended to disrupt a newsgroup. Typically these have
     reasonable-looking headers but complete gibberish for content, making
     the legitimate articles too difficult to find. This tactic has been most
     notoriously used by the Church of Scientology to disrupt discussion on
     the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology, but is unfortunately not by any


     means confined to that group.