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• black hole n.,vt. [common] What data (a piece of email or netnew
  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)....
• Internet Death Penalty [Usenet] (often abbreviated IDP) The ultimate sanction against spam-emitting sites - complete shunning at the router level of all mail and packe
  as well as Usenet messages, from the offending domain(s). Compare Usenet Death Penalty, w...
• mailbomb (also mail bomb) [Usenet] 1. v. To send, or urge others to send, massive amounts of email to a single system or person, esp.
  with intent to crash or spam the recipient's system....
• BIFF: /bif/ [USENET] n. The most famous {pseudo}, and the prototypical {newbie}.
  Articles from BIFF are characterized by all uppercase letters sprinkled liberally with bangs, typos, `cute' misspellings (EVRY BUDY LUVS GOOD OLD BIFF CUZ HE"S A K00L DOOD AN HE RITES REEL AWESUM THINGZ IN CAPITULL LETTRS LIKE THIS!...
• leaf site n.,obs. Before pervasive TCP/IP, this term was used of a machine that merely originated and read Usenet news or mail, and did not relay any third-party traffic.
  It was often uttered in a critical tone; when the ratio of leaf sites to backbone, rib, and other relay sites got too high, the network tended to develop bottlenecks....
• drop on the floor 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....
• PD /P-D/ adj. [common] Abbreviation for `public domain', applied to software distributed over Usenet and from Internet archive sites.
  Much of this software is not in fact public domain in the legal sense but travels under various copyrights granting reproduction and use rights to anyone who can snarf a copy....
• 1. Some folks have it, some don't. 2. Those who have it would be devastated if it were ever cut off.
  3. Those who have it think that those who don't are somehow inferior....
• mailbomb: (also mail bomb) [USENET] 1. v. To send, or urge others to send, massive amounts of {email} to a single system or person, esp.
  with intent to crash or {spam} the recipient's system....