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Finally, the success of spam and self-propagation messages, as well as many particular aspects of the exploits that worms perform, depend on languages.

From Scientific American • Jun. 21, 2013

In early 2007, the self-propagation message that dominated the field was “230 dead as storm batters Europe”: the vehicle for the eponymous Storm Worm.

From Scientific American • Jun. 21, 2013

Such a message is classified as a self-propagation spam campaign in the language of the antispam community—spam to add more machines to a network.

From Scientific American • Jun. 21, 2013

The "Three-Selfs" stood for self-government, self-propagation and self-support.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the instincts of self-preservation and self-propagation in their most primitive forms, the ethically bad is produced, and offers fierce resistance to harmonizing influences.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.