mailbomb
:mailbomb: (also mail bomb) [Usenet] 1. v. To send, or urge others to
send, massive amounts of email
to a single system or person, esp. with
intent to crash or spam
the recipient's system. Sometimes done in
retaliation for a perceived serious offense. Mailbombing is itself
widely regarded as a serious offense -- it can disrupt email traffic or
other facilities for innocent users on the victim's system, and in
extreme cases, even at upstream sites. 2. n. An automatic procedure with
a similar effect. 3. n. The mail sent. Compare letterbomb
nastygram
, BLOB
(sense 2), list-bomb
Jargon File Version 4.3.1, 29 JUN 2001 =
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