spammable

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English

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Etymology

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From spam +‎ -able.

Adjective

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spammable (comparative more spammable, superlative most spammable)

  1. (Internet, rare) That can be spammed; susceptible to spamming.
    • 2000, Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R Hein, Unix System Administration Handbook:
      ...such as finding people to cold-call and prospecting for spammable addresses.
    • 2003, Robert Shimonski, Building DMZs for Enterprise Networks:
      This can be done in many ways, which we look at shortly. Once you know it is spammable, you just need to know exploit [sic] the system.
    • 2006, Eric Fullilove, Credible Threat:
      He didn't recognize the sender, but this was a very secure, non-spammable address. The subject line simply said MESSAGE.HTML. He clicked on the blue text...
    • 2007 January 30, Brad Stone, “A Lively Market, Legal and Not, for Software Bugs”, in New York Times[1]:
      But now software vulnerabilities — as with stolen credit-card numbers and spammable e-mail addresses — carry real financial value.