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List-bomb V. To Mailbomb Someone By Forging Messages Causing The Victim To Become A Subscriber To Many Mailing Lists.
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list-bomb v.
To mailbomb someone by forging
messages causing the victim to become a subscriber to many mailing
lists. This is a self-defeating tactic; it merely forces mailing
list servers to require confirmation by return message for every
subscription.
Related:
No man is an island if he's on at least one mailing list.
mailing list n. (often shortened in context to `list') 1.
An email address that is an alias (or macro, though that word is never used in this connection) for many other email addresses....
post: v. To send a message to a {mailing list} or {newsgroup}.
Distinguished in context from `mail'; one might ask, for example...
post v. To send a message to a mailing list or newsgroup.
Distinguished in context from `mail'; one might ask, for example...
How many AOL users -- does it take to change a light bulb?
Eleven. One to ask to be on the light bulb gif mailing list, nine to say "ME TOO!...
posting n. Noun corresp. to v. post (but note that post can be nouned).
Distinguished from a `letter' or ordinary email message by the fact that it is broadcast rather than point-to-point....
posting: n. Noun corresp. to v. {post} (but note that {post} can be nouned).
Distinguished from a `letter' or ordinary {email} message by the fact that it is broadcast rather than point-to-point....
All things come to those...who get on a mailing list.
No man is an island so long as he is on at least one mailing list.