{"id":11353,"date":"2011-02-28T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/02\/28\/on-the-linguistic-productivity-of-the-word-spam\/"},"modified":"2011-02-28T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T07:00:01","slug":"on-the-linguistic-productivity-of-the-word-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20110228-01\/?p=11353\/","title":{"rendered":"On the linguistic productivity of the word spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word <i>spam<\/i> has spawned off its own corner of the English language.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>spamdexing<\/td>\n<td>inflating one&#8217;s rank in a Web index<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>sping<\/td>\n<td>Trackback spam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>splog<\/td>\n<td>A fake blog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>spim<\/td>\n<td>Spam instant messages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>spasms<\/td>\n<td>Spam SMS messages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>spit<\/td>\n<td>VoIP spam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>sporgery<\/td>\n<td>Spamming with a forged From line<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>spambot<\/td>\n<td>A computer which sends spam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>blam<\/td>\n<td>spam comments on a blog<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p> I&#8217;m impressed by how productive the root word <i>spam<\/i> has become.<\/p>\n<p> <b>Gratuitous cross-promotion<\/b>: My colleague Terry Zink occasionally writes about spam on his <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/tzink\/\"> Cyber Security Blog<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word spam has spawned off its own corner of the English language. spamdexing inflating one&#8217;s rank in a Web index sping Trackback spam splog A fake blog spim Spam instant messages spasms Spam SMS messages spit VoIP spam sporgery Spamming with a forged From line spambot A computer which sends spam blam spam comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-11353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The word spam has spawned off its own corner of the English language. spamdexing inflating one&#8217;s rank in a Web index sping Trackback spam splog A fake blog spim Spam instant messages spasms Spam SMS messages spit VoIP spam sporgery Spamming with a forged From line spambot A computer which sends spam blam spam comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}