spamhaus spam'hows n.
Pejorative term for an internet service provider that permits
or even encourages spam mailings from
its systems. The plural is `spamhausen'. There is a web page
devoted to tracking
spamhausen.
The most notorious of the spamhausen was Sanford Wallace's
Cyber Promotions Inc., shut down by a lawsuit on 16 October 1997.
The anniversary of the shutdown is celebrated on Usenet as Spam
Freedom Day, but lesser imitators of the Spamford still infest
various murky corners of the net. Since prosecution of spammers
became routine under the junk-fax laws and statues specifically
targeting spam, spamhausen have declined in relative importance;
today, hit-and-run attacks by spammers using relay rape and throwaway accounts on reputable
ISPs seem to account for most of the flow.
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spamvertize v.
To advertise using spam.
Pejorative.