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 (sens
list-bomb.
(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 (sens
list-bomb.
Related:
- mailbomb: (also mail bomb) [USENET] 1. v. To send, or urge
others to send,
massive amounts of {email} to a single system or ... - 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... - nastygram: /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... - nastygram /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... - 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... - spam vt.,vi.,n.
[from "Monty Python's Flying
Circus"] 1.
To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer... - 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... - mailing list n.
(often shortened in context to `list')
1.
An email address that is an alias (or macro, though... - bomb
1. v. General synonym for crash (sense 1) except
that it is not used as a noun;
esp. used of software or OS failures. "Don't run...
From the same category:
- UN*X n.
Used to refer to the Unix operating system (a
trademark of AT&T) in writing,
but avoiding the need for the ugly (TM) typography... - sanity check n.
[very common] 1. The act of checking a
piece of code (or anything else,
e.g., a Usenet posting) for completely stupid mistakes... - interrupt
1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event
that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts
flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine.
See also trap. 2.... - initgame /in-it'gaym/ n.
[IRC] An IRC version of
the trivia game "Botticelli",
in which one user changes his nick to the initials... - gweep /gweep/
[WPI] 1. v. To hack, usually at night.
At WPI, from 1975 onwards, one who gweeped could often...
