/dev/null

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

/dev/null
 /dev.nuhl/, n.

   [from the Unix null device, used as a data sink] A notional `black
   hole' in any information space being discussed, used, or referred to.
   A controversial posting, for example, might end "Kudos to
   [email protected], flames to /dev/null". See {bit bucket}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

/dev/null

   /dev-nuhl/ [The Unix null device, used as a {data sink}] A
   notional "black hole" in any information space being
   discussed, used, or referred to.  A controversial posting, for
   example, might end "Kudos to [email protected], flames to
   /dev/null".  See {bit bucket}.

   [{Jargon File}]

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