About flame mails - they make me laugh, really.

"We're willing to subject our technology to flame mail, harsh and adverse criticism, so that we can create the best of the breed.

It is the ultimate "lean" company, quick and responsive, distinctively able to react faster than flame mail over a T3 line.

He later identified one letter to himself as the "most searing flame mail," which called him a "self-serving, arrogant windbag."

Those who are proficient with computers, they note, are able to use other people's addresses or mask their own, making anonymous hate communications, or "flame mail," fairly simple to produce.

But now that I've fawned a little and the V-Ray fanboys are readying their flame mail, let me say that Maxwell Render is definitely not for everyone.

For instance, users would be able to embellish electronic correspondence with a variety of font types and sizes, allowing flame mail to be fired off in 72-point red type, if the user is so inclined.

"Rapid-fire wordmeisters often prefer to communicate via E-mail," Stephen Wilbers wrote in The Minneapolis Star Tribune recently, ". . . and their inflammatory messages have been nicknamed 'flame mail.' "