Bounce Message N.
[common] Notification Message
Returned To Sender By A Site Unable To Relay Email To The
Intended Internet Address Recipient Or The Next Link In A
Bang Path (see Bounce
[common] Notification message
returned to sender by a site unable to relay email to the
intended Internet address recipient or the next link in a
bang path (see bounce, sense 1). Reasons might include a
nonexistent or misspelled username or a down relay site.
Bounce messages can themselves fail, with occasionally ugly
results; see sorcerer's apprentice mode and
etwork, the: n. 1. The union of all the major noncommercial
academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the old
ARPANET, NSFnet, {BITNET}, and the virtual UUCP and {USENET}
`networks', plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial
time-sharing services (such as CompuServe) that gateway to them....