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• orcerer's apprentice mode n. [from Goethe's "Der Zauberlehrling" via Paul Dukas's "L'apprenti sorcier" the film "Fantasia"] A bug in a protocol where
  under some circumstances, the receipt of a message causes multiple messages to be sent, each of which, when received, triggers the same bug....
• bounce message: [UNIX] n. 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}
  ense 1). Reasons might include a nonexistent or misspelled username or a {down} relay site....
• ARMM n. [acronym, `Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation'] A Usenet cancelbot created by Dick Depew of Munroe Falls, Ohio.
  ARMM was intended to automatically cancel posts from anonymous-posting sites....
• oftware laser: n. An optical laser works by bouncing photons back and forth between two mirrors, one totally reflective and one partially reflective.
  If the lasing material (usually a crystal) has the right properties, photons scattering off the atoms in the crystal will excite cascades of more photons, all in lockstep....
• broadcast storm: n. An incorrect packet broadcast on a network that causes most hosts to respond all at once, typically with wrong answers that start the process over again.
  See {network meltdown}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• astygram: /nas'tee-gram/ n. 1. A protocol packet or item of email (the latter is also called a {letterbomb}) that takes advantage of misfeatures or security holes on the target system to do untoward things.
  2. Disapproving mail, esp. from a {net.god}, pursuant to a violation of {netiquette} or a complaint about failure to correct some mail- or news-transmission problem....
• barfmail: n. Multiple {bounce message}s accumulating to the level of serious annoyance, or worse.
  The sort of thing that happens when an inter-network mail gateway goes down or wonky....
• 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
  ense 1). Reasons might include a nonexistent or misspelled username or a down relay site....
• protocol: n. As used by hackers, this never refers to niceties about the proper form for addressing letters to the Papal Nuncio or the order in which one should use the forks in a Russian-style place setting
  hackers don't care about such things. It is used instead to describe any set of rules that allow different machines or pieces of software to coordinate with each other without ambiguity....