2014-08-05 North Drinks - 6th Birthday - Norths done growed up

Part Spambot
Part Howrad

do feel the word spam is regularly mis-used or more widely-assigned that my understanding of its definition..

.. especially when attempting to post a thread that posts a link to an event that would ideally show-up in the search results for 'Norths' (!!!!!!!!!!!)

Spambot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spambot
A spambot is an automated computer program designed to assist in the sending of spam.

Spam
noun: disruptive messages, especially commercial messages posted on a computer network or sent as e-mail.
verb (spams , spamming , spammed): to send unsolicited electronic mail or text messages simultaneously to a number of e-mail addresses or mobile phones
[C20: from the repeated use of the word Spam in a popular sketch from the British television show Monty Python's Flying Circus, first broadcast in 1969]
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spam?s=t

i suppose such a post is unsolicited, in the sense of being given or supplied without being requested or asked for, but a forum ( "place of assembly", "discussion") would seem to me to involve unsolicited contributions (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

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