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.

