transcription, транскрипция: [ 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. Readily verbed as `blackhole': "That router is blackholing IDP packets." Compare bit bucket aand see RBL .