I'm not defending the idea of spamfics. I'm just offering a possible 
reason why they're referred to as such.

Um, some of the best fanfic ideas I've seen were originally spamfics that
got developed further after good response.  I think that's adequate defense
of the idea, no?
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"Well, they are lucky.  Let them be
 nine-lived and contradictory,
 curious enough to change, prepared to pay
 the cat price, which is to die
 and die again and again,
 each time with no less pain.
 A cat minority of one
 is all that can be counted on
 to tell the truth.  And what cats have to tell
 on each return from hell
 is this: that dying is what the living do,
 that dying is what the loving do,
 and that dead dogs are those who do not know
 that dying is what, to live, each has to do."
		from "Curiosity", by Alastair Reid