2014-04-26 14:52:28 +00:00
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black hole
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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n.,vt. [common] What data (a piece of email or netnews, or a stream of
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TCP/IP packets) has fallen into if it disappears mysteriously between its
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origin and destination sites (that is, without returning a bounce message ).
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I think there's a black hole at foovax ! conveys suspicion that site foovax
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has been dropping a lot of stuff on the floor lately (see drop on the floor
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). The implied metaphor of email as interstellar travel is interesting in
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itself.
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