VOCABULARY mail-bombing - bombardowanie wiadomościami w internecie colleague - kolega post - poczta unwanted - niechciana e-mail - poczta elektroniczna annoying - irytujacy, drażniący to affect - wpływać (na coś) to delete - kasować, usuwać, wymazywać to offend - obrażać to upset - zdenerwować (kogoś), zepsuć komuś humor message - wiadomość, komunikat rude - niegrzeczny, nieuprzejmy in return - w odpowiedzi loads of - mnóstwo useless - bezużyteczny flame-war - wojna e -mailów; chodzi o wysyłanie obraźliwych listów to break out - wybuchać to overload - przeciążać to crash - ulegać awarii; ‘siadać’, ‘wysiadać’ polite - grzeczny, uprzejmy

LESSON 32
Mail-bombing

V1: One of my colleagues at work keeps being mail-bombed.

V2: What, someone keeps sending them lots of post?

V1: Sort of. They keep receiving loads of unwanted e-mail.

V2: How annoying.

V1: 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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