What do you call that junk you get?

By
EKR
on February 13, 2006 9:23 PM | Comments (3) |
I'm looking for a collective term for all the varieties of junk messaging (spam, phishing, SPIT, SPIM, etc.). The generic term for the e-mail variety seems to be Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE). By analogy, I propose Unsolicited Bulk Messaging (UBM).

3 Comments

By Kevin Dick on February 13, 2006 10:58 PM

Seeing as how "BM" has another connotation, UBM="You BM" might be good or bad depending on the context. In an official or professional context, you may want to avoid it.

How about unsolicited bulk communication?

By Justin Mason on February 14, 2006 4:02 PM

UBM sounds good to me.

By Dan Simon on February 14, 2006 5:08 PM

How about, "e-junk"?

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