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February 13, 2006
What do you call that junk you get?
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).Posted by ekr at February 13, 2006 9:23 PM | Filed under:
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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?
Posted by: Kevin Dick at February 13, 2006 10:58 PM
UBM sounds good to me.
Posted by: Justin Mason at February 14, 2006 4:02 PM
How about, "e-junk"?
Posted by: Dan Simon at February 14, 2006 5:08 PM