flamemail

plural flamemails

1. InternetcountableuncountableAggressively insulting email.

   A commercial and retail bank employee sends a “flamemail”. The defamatory email details experiences with an identified customer. It is circulated internally, but someone leaks it.

   2013, Tracey Walker, Reputation Matters, page 169

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   Such knee-jerk reactions will usually lead to a volume of unwanted, unnecessary and uncomfortable flamemail directed at you and occasionally every company e-mail address that the Internet rovers can find.

   1998, Public Relations Quarterly, volume 43, page 32

   Flamemails may be used as a shield for the manager who lacks the skills of face-to-face communication or for someone who would rather avoid any type of direct confrontation with others.

   2009, Lynda Macdonald, Tolley's Managing Email & Internet Use, page 32