On Nerd AOL using explosive mail, this Cyberia-L pointer: http://infolawalert.com/stories/061496a.html [Excerpts] Cyber Promotions sends a collection of short ads, written as if they were newspaper classifieds, to upward of 900,000 recipients, 600,000 of whom are America OnLine subscribers. America OnLine contends that its computer systems have been swamped by Cyber Promotion's mass mailings, especially when 5,000 undeliverable messages start to pile up each day. ... When the mailings continued, an AOL employee collected a bunch of Cyber Promotions's undeliverable messages and redirected them to UUNET, a large Internet service provider used by Cyber Promotions. According to Cyber Promotions' complaint, this "stunt, known as an 'e-mail bomb,' was knowingly and maliciously sent to UUNET by AOL in order to severely tie up and/or bring down UUNET's computer system." UUNET subsequently cancelled Cyber Promotion's account. According to Cyber Promotions' complaint, AOL bombed another service provider used by Cyber Promotions. ...