Talk:Email bomb

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I redirected this to mailbomb, where there's a more in-depth discussion of email bombs. However, since the two topics are actually quite different, it might make more sense to split that section off and bring it here. Joyous! | Talk 14:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC) I agree that the email bomb material on mailbomb should be moved here and this page un-redirected. However, I haven't a clue how to redirect, or unredirect even a Wiki page. So if that's something yuo could handle I'd be grateful. Tall Girl 01:33, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

List Linking

The article states that the validation email can be easily circumvented if "the perpetrator registers a new email account and sets it to automatically forward all mail to the victim, he or she can reply to the confirmation emails, and the list linking can proceed."

Yes, this might circumvent the registration process, but since now all the subscriptions come from one single email (the forwarding address), it makes blocking them even easier.

That paragraph should probably be removed, as it doesn't really make much sense.

173.246.23.219 (talk) 18:38, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

I agree and will delete that sentence. Fmenczer (talk) 23:06, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Suggest name change to: Email bombing

I have past experience of this type of cyber attack and know that it was always called/referred to as "email bombing", I can't recall people referring to it as being an email bomb. Email bomb sounds like one email whereas Email bombing suggests multiples which is why it was always called email bombing

PS, as I've stated, I have past experience of this, I've even been questioned/interrogated by the authorities about it.

HardeeHar (talk) 10:37, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

@HardeeHar: I went ahead and created a redirect from Email bombing to this article. This is mostly to entirely for the benefit of people using the internal search on Wikipedia, and it might get a minimal amount of traffic. If you put [[email bomb]]ing, it'll render as email bombing, linking the entire word of "bombing", so it's not for the benefit of internal linking so much.

Whether the redirect and article should be renamed/switched is another discussion, but at least people who know it as "email bombing" can find it ever-so-slightly easier. -- I dream of horses  If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message  (talk to me) (My edits) @ 23:24, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Lizard squad

As you may or may not know Infamous hacker/blackhat group known as 'Lizard squad' had their own botnet with accompanying website on which members of said website could pay to use lizard squads botnet to ddos targets of their choice; said website also provided email bombing free of charge to it's members : ) HardeeHar (talk) 10:44, 29 July 2018 (UTC)