: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}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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- mailbomb
(also mail bomb) [Usenet] 1. v. To send,
or urge others to send, massive amounts of email... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - email: /ee'mayl/ (also written `e-mail') 1. n. Electronic mail
automatically passed through computer networks and/or via modems
over common-carrier lines.
Contrast {snail-mail}, {paper-net}, {voice-net}... - snail-mail: n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.
Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'...
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