What is mailbombing?
Mailbombing is a term that we use for sending quantities of junk mail to a specific target (user). This can be done in two ways, you can send the user many short emails, or you can send the user a few HUGE emails. If you send him, say, 350 messages saying “fuck you”, then he will have to delete all of the messages, which would be both tiresome and annoying in the lenght. If you send him a few huge messages, then you might be lucky enough to use up all his disc quota. If you’re a real bold one and sends GIGANTIC amounts of crap email, then you might be lucky enough to crash their system. Yet, before you try any of this, remember that you’re audited and that it will be traced back to you. Source code to help you send big quantities of email can be found at The Avenger’s Front Page. 14… How do I deal with internet crime and harrassment? The best way of dealing with crime and harrassment on the internet is to complain directly to the user’s sysop. It is imporant that you behave political
Mailbombing is sending someone so many email messages that they can’t manage it and/or his email system breaks down; it’s a type of denial-of-service (DOS) attack (another is artificially giving a web site so many hits at once that it can’t handle the load). This is bad. Even though people sometimes say to do it in a good cause, don’t do it. It’s wasteful of bandwidth and resources, and it’s counter-productive. Besides, it’s illegal. Stopspam.org has a few reasons not to do it.
