MAIL BOMB

  

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MAIL BOMB

Specialty Definition: MAIL BOMB

DomainDefinition

Computing

Mail bomb To send, or urge others to send, massive amounts of electronic mail to a single system or person, with intent to crash or spam the recipient's system. A successful mail bomb may cause the victim's disk quota to be exhausted, the disk holding his mailbox to fill up, or his computer to spend a large proportion of its time processing mail. Mail-bombing is sometimes done in retaliation against someone persistently abusing Usenet and violating netiquette. While it may inconvenience the intended victim (if they gave their real address), it will probably also inconvenience other users and administrators of the computers and networks involved. Mailbombing is thus a serious offense itself. See netiquette for the correct way to respond to perceived violations. Compare letterbomb, nastygram. [Jargon File] (1995-04-04). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MAIL BOMB

Specialty definitions using "MAIL BOMB": mailbomb. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MAIL BOMB

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

e mail bomb

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: MAIL BOMB

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mailbomb.

Words within the letters "a-b-b-i-l-m-m-o"

-2 letters: bilboa, imbalm.

-3 letters: aboil, bilbo, bimbo, limba, limbo, mambo.

-4 letters: ambo, ammo, bail, balm, bima, blab, blam, blob, boil, bola, bomb, iamb, imam, lamb, lima, limb, limo, loam, mail, maim, malm, milo, moil, mola, momi, obia.

-5 letters: abo, ail, aim, alb, ami, bal, bam, bib, bio, boa, bob, lab, lam, lib, lob, mib, mil.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-i-l-m-m-o"
 

+1 letter: mailbombs.

 

+2 letters: mailbombed.

 

+3 letters: mailbombing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MAIL BOMB


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 41 49 4C      42 4F 4D 42

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01000001 01001001 01001100 00100000 01000010 01001111 01001101 01000010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#73 &#76 &#32 &#66 &#79 &#77 &#66

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 0049 004C      0042 004F 004D 0042

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47354346236494736

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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