drop on the floor
: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." Also
frequently used of faulty mail and netnews relay sites that lose
messages. See also black hole
, bit bucket
Jargon File Version 4.3.1, 29 JUN 2001 =
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