spimming

English

Etymology

spim +‎ -ing

Noun

spimming (uncountable)

1. (Internet) The sending of spim.
   • 2007, Bill Daley, Computers Are Your Future, page 70:

     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!