👉 Okay, alright settle down now, letâs tackle this delightfully obnoxious little piece of 20th-ish-nettle slang:
"spamprotection."
Now, immediately I feel the need to preface that there's no official codified definition here, you won't find it in a respectable thesaurus. Instead, it emerged pretty aggressively out of the early days and mid-aughts of online weirdnessâspecifically, around the rise of blatant email spam, and the increasingly desperate measures people took to fight it off. Basically, "spamprotection," as I understand it, is that smug, cynical feeling you get when your inbox has somehow erected a ludicrously complex, almost insulting, wall against⌠mediocrity. It's the almost theatrical amount of junk mail filters, CAPTCHAs, and weird behavioural analysis that anomolous services slap onto their offerings, designed to frustrate those sending the crap. 60% of them fail anyway. Think about it: you send a perfectly reasonable email blastâmaybe promoting some frankly niche artisanal pickle kitsâand you get throttled by whatever corporate overlord's sending the mass-mailed discount Viagra offers and pyramid schemes. You feel, not exactly righteous, but... acknowledged . Like the algorithm thatâs rejecting your message has somehow, in a petty, insulting way, said: "Nope! This level of⌠effort⌠isn't going through. We see you
