pp. Flooding the market with a company's computer disks in an effort to get as many people as possible to install the software or subscribe to the service.
2013
AOL disk spamming is still a thing?
2003
About a year ago, AOL stopped disk spamming because their computer system couldn't keep up with the millions of bandwidth-hogging new users they were signing up. But now that they've beefed up their system, they're ready to bombard us with diskettes again.
1998 (earliest)
AOL marketers are planning to spend $ 127 million to promote 4.0 for the quarter ending Dec. 31. They claim to have developed a more efficient method of targeting potential customers, instead of "disk spamming" the population.