See blam in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2012, Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy:",
"text": "[…] we refer to unsolicited and unwanted advertising as spam. The phenomenon is widespread, and has led people to coin terms for it in other information product or service contexts, such as splog or blam (unsolicited advertisements in blog comments), spim (instant messaging), […]",
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