nastygram

2 definitions found

nastygram - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  nastygram
  
     <networking> /nas'tee-gram/ 1. A network packet or
     e-mail message (the latter is also called a letterbomb)
     that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the
     target system to do untoward things.
  
     2. Disapproving e-mail, especially 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.
  
     3. A status report from an unhappy, and probably picky,
     customer.  "What did Corporate say in today's nastygram?"
  
     4. [deprecated] An error reply by mail from a daemon; in
     particular, a bounce message.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (2004-02-17)
  

nastygram - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  nastygram
   /nas'tee.gram/, n.
  
     1. 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.
  
     2. 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.
  
     3. A status report from an unhappy, and probably picky, customer.
     "What'd Corporate say in today's nastygram?"
  
     4. [deprecated] An error reply by mail from a daemon; in
  particular,
     a bounce message.