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• black hole: n. What a piece of email or netnews has fallen into if it disappears mysteriously between its origin and destination sites (that is, without returning a {bounce message}).
  I think there's a black hole at foovax!" conveys suspicion that site foovax has been dropping a lot of stuff on the floor lately (see {drop on the floor})....
• drop on the floor vt. To react to an error condition by silently discarding messages or other valuable data.
  The gateway ran out of memory, so it just started dropping packets on the floor....
• drop on the floor: vt. To react to an error condition by silently discarding messages or other valuable data.
  The gateway ran out of memory, so it just started dropping packets on the floor....
• bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction).
  Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'....
• uper source quench n. A special packet designed to shut up an Internet host.
  The Internet Protocol (IP) has a control message called Source Quench that asks a host to transmit more slowly on a particular connection to avoid congestion....
• uper source quench: n. A special packet designed to shut up an Internet host.
  The Internet Protocol (IP) has a control message called Source Quench that asks a host to transmit more slowly on a particular connection to avoid congestion....
• pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
  To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
• bounce message: [UNIX] n. Notification message returned to sender by a site unable to relay {email} to the intended {{Internet address}} recipient or the next link in a {bang path} (see {bounce}
  ense 1). Reasons might include a nonexistent or misspelled username or a {down} relay site....
• dev/null /dev-nuhl/ n. [from the Unix null device, used as a data sink] A notional `black hole' in any information space being discussed, used, or referred to.
  A controversial posting, for example, might end "Kudos to rasputin@kremlin....