In Hyding? I mentioned the World Wide Words search to find a word for the spammers’ deliberate misspelling of words to evade spam detectors.
The results: The winning coinages were “camouflogging” (from Claudi Witzling, who lives in Flanders, New Jersey), “adfuscation” (from Paul Witheridge of Ontario, Canada), and “newspell” (sent in by Peter Casey of Naperville, IL).
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