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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. 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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