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• 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....
• letterbomb 1. n. A piece of email containing live data intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's machine or terminal.
  It used to be possible, for example, to send letterbombs that would lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed, so thoroughly that the user must cycle power (see cycle, sense 3) to unwedge them....
• astygram: /nas'tee-gram/ n. 1. A protocol packet or item of email (the latter is also called a {letterbomb}) that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to do untoward things.
  2. Disapproving mail, esp. from a {net.god}, pursuant to a violation of {netiquette} or a complaint about failure to correct some mail- or news-transmission problem....
• astygram /nas'tee-gram/ n. 1. A protocol packet or item of email (the latter is also called a letterbomb) that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to do untoward things.
  2. Disapproving mail, esp. from a net.god, pursuant to a violation of netiquette or a complaint about failure to correct some mail- or news-transmission problem....
• letterbomb: 1. n. A piece of {email} containing {live data} intended to do nefarious things to the recipient's machine or terminal.
  It is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that will lock up some specific kinds of terminals when they are viewed, so thoroughly that the user must cycle power (see {cycle}, sense 3) to unwedge them....
• pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
  To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
• crash 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system (q.
  v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happens when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....
• mailing list n. (often shortened in context to `list') 1.
  An email address that is an alias (or macro, though that word is never used in this connection) for many other email addresses....
• bomb 1. v. General synonym for crash (sense 1) except that it is not used as a nou
  esp. used of software or OS failures. "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb....