bounce message n.
[common] 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, sense 1). Reasons might include a
nonexistent or misspelled username or a down relay site.
Bounce messages can themselves fail, with occasionally ugly
results; see sorcerer's apprentice mode and
[common] 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, sense 1). Reasons might include a
nonexistent or misspelled username or a down relay site.
Bounce messages can themselves fail, with occasionally ugly
results; see sorcerer's apprentice mode and
Related:
- bounce message n.
[common] 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,
sense 1). Reasons might include a nonexistent or... - sorcerer's apprentice mode n.
[from Goethe's "Der
Zauberlehrling" via Paul Dukas's "L'apprenti sorcier" the film
"Fantasia"] A bug in a protocol where,
under some circumstances, the receipt of a message... - sorcerer's apprentice mode: [from Friedrich Schiller's "Der
Zauberlehrling" via the film "Fantasia"] n.
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and forth between two mirrors,
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[common] What data (a piece of email
or netnews,
or a stream of TCP/IP packets) has fallen into if it... - bounce v.
1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing
check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns
an error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'.
See also bounce message. 2. [Stanford] To play... - 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 ... - bounce: v. 1. [perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An
electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error
notification to the sender is said to `bounce'.
See also {bounce message}. 2. [Stanford] To play... - network, the: n. 1. The union of all the major noncommercial,
academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet...
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[from `oxherd'] A VAX
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The image is reinforced because VAXen actually did... - real estate n.
May be used for any critical resource
measured in units of area.
Most frequently used of `chip real estate', the... - payware /pay'weir/ n.
Commercial software.
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A really nasty piece
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Compare nastygram, flame...
