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A: One of my colleagues at work keeps being mail-bombed.
B: What, someone keeps sending them lots of post?
A: Sort of. They keep receiving loads of unwanted e-mail.
B: How annoying.
A: Yes, it's affecting their work as they have to spend a lot of time deleting a huge number of unwanted messages.
People are usually mail-bombed, because they have done something to offend or upset other users on the internet. You could have upset a user by sending an angry message or by being rude to them. In return they send you loads of useless information. They mail-bomb you, to annoy you too.
If a flame-war breaks out and you're being mail-bombed with thousands of messages, it could overload your computer and make it crash. So, my advice is - be always polite. Don't annoy others and, hopefully, they won't annoy you. But if you have been rude and now other users mail-bomb you - send them an e-mail ask them politely to stop. That should ... hm …er…do it.
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