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black hole: n.,vt. [common] What data (a piece of email or netnews, or a stream of
TCP/IP packets) 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). The implied metaphor of email as interstellar
travel is interesting in itself. Readily verbed as blackhole: “That router is blackholing
IDP packets.” Compare bit bucket and see
RBL.
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