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black hole
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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.
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