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/nas'tee-gram/ 1. A protocol packet or item of e-mail (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, 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
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