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 to a violation of netiquette or a
complaint about failure to correct some mail- or news-transmission
problem. Compare shitogram, mailbomb. 3. A status
report from an unhappy, and probably picky, customer. "What'd
Corporate say in today's nastygram?" 4. [deprecated] An error
reply by mail from a daemon; in particular, a bounce message
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. Compare shitogram, mailbomb. 3. A status
report from an unhappy, and probably picky, customer. "What'd
Corporate say in today's nastygram?" 4. [deprecated] An error
reply by mail from a daemon; in particular, a bounce message
Related:
- 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 used to be possible, for example, to send letterbombs... - mailbomb
(also mail bomb) [Usenet] 1. v. To send,
or urge others to send, massive amounts of email... - 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 is possible, for example, to send letterbombs that... - bounce v.
1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing
check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns
an error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'.
See also bounce message. 2. [Stanford] To play... - bounce: v. 1. [perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An
electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error
notification to the sender is said to `bounce'.
See also {bounce message}. 2. [Stanford] To play... - spam vt.,vi.,n.
[from "Monty Python's Flying
Circus"] 1.
To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer... - shitogram: /shit'oh-gram/ n. A *really* nasty piece of email.
Compare {nastygram}, {flame}. -- The AI Hackers...
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Syn.
sharchive... - heavy metal n.
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[coined in a paper by T.
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Clueful. Plugged-in. One of the
cognoscenti.
Also used as a general positive adjective. This term... - insanely great adj.
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