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ARMM

ARMM:

[acronym, `Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation'] A Usenet, cancelbot created by Dick Depew of Munroe Falls, Ohio. ARMM was intended to automatically cancel posts from anonymous-posting sites. Unfortunately, the robot's recognizer for anonymous postings triggered on its own automatically-generated control messages! Transformed by this stroke of programming ineptitude into a monster of Frankensteinian proportions, it broke loose on the night of March 30, 1993 and proceeded to spam news.admin.policy with a recursive explosion of over 200 messages. ARMM's bug produced a recursive {cascade} of messages each of which mechanically added text to the ID and Subject and some other headers of its parent. This produced a flood of messages in which each header took up several screens and each message ID and subject line got longer and longer and longer. Reactions varied from amusement to outrage. The pathological messages crashed at least one mail system, and upset people paying line charges for their Usenet feeds. One poster described the ARMM debacle as "instant Usenet history" (also establishing the term {despew}), and it has since been widely cited as a cautionary example of the havoc the combination of good intentions and incompetence can wreak on a network. The Usenet thread on the subject is archived here. Compare Great Worm; sorcerer's apprentice mode.

nastygram

A protocol packet or item of email (the latter is also called a {letterbomb}) that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to do untoward things.
Disapproving mail, esp. from a {net.god}, pursuant to a violation of {netiquette} or a complaint about failure to correct some mail- or news-transmission problem. Compare {shitogram}, mailbomb.
A status report from an unhappy, and probably picky, customer. "What'd Corporate say in today's nastygram?"
[deprecated] An error reply by mail from a {daemon}; in particular, a {bounce message}.

mailbomb

(also mail bomb) [Usenet]

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.
n. An automatic procedure with a similar effect.
n. The mail sent. Compare {letterbomb}, {nastygram}, {BLOB} (sense 2), {list-bomb}.

Marcadores: 2000, 2002, E-mail, Newsgroups, Spam, Tarpit, Usenet

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Retransmissão de e-mail

Uma prática em que um invasor envia mensagens de e-mail a partir do servidor de e-mail de outro sistema para usar seus recursos e/ou fazer parecer que as mensagens se originaram no outro sistema.