1. 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 (sense 2),
list-bomb.
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