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2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
drop on the floor
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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. Also frequently used of faulty mail and netnews relay
sites that lose messages. See also black hole , bit bucket.