Meaning of spimmer | Babel Free

Definitions

One who sends spim (unsolicited instant messages).

Examples

“Spam in e-mail isn't new. But as barriers to it have succeeded, spimmers have taken fresh aim at IM.”

“Most forecasters are predicting that spim will spin out of control as soon as spimmers find a way to abscond with large numbers of IM screen names, which are not as readily available as e-mail addresses.”

“Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!”

“Spimmers clog mobile devices by sending tones^([sic]) of unwanted SMS or MMS and hence making the devices useless.”

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