from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
store and forward
message switching
<messaging> (Or "message switching") A kind of {message
passing} system where a complete message is received before
any of it is passed on to the next node. This means that each
message is using at most one interprocessor link at any time
but intermediate nodes will require more storage buffers than
under the alternative, {wormhole routing}.
E-mail transmission is an example of {store and forward}
message passing.
(1995-02-16)