flame war

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

flame war
 n.

   [common] (var.: flamewar) An acrimonious dispute, especially when
   conducted on a public electronic forum such as {Usenet}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

flame war

   <messaging, jargon> An acrimonious dispute conducted on a
   public electronic forum such as {Usenet}.  See {flame}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1998-05-27)

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