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Definition

An uninteresting, low-level, low-paying job.

An act of e-mail spamming where the sender's identity and address are those of an innocent third party, intended either to tarnish that person's reputation or to flood that person's e-mail with bounces.

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Origins

In the computing sense, originated from such a spam attack against Joe Doll in 1997.

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In Context

  • "Steve Wozniak may be a well-heeled philanthropist and world-renowned tinkerer, but at one time he had a Joe job as an engineer in Hewlett-Packard's calculator division."