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mailbomb
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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1. v. To send, or urge others to send, massive amounts of email to a single
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system or person, esp. with intent to crash or spam the recipient's system.
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Sometimes done in retaliation for a perceived serious offense. Mailbombing
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is itself widely regarded as a serious offense it can disrupt email traffic
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or other facilities for innocent users on the victim's system, and in
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extreme cases, even at upstream sites. 2. n. An automatic procedure with a
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similar effect. 3. n. The mail sent. Compare letterbomb , nastygram , BLOB
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(sense 2), list-bomb.
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