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.