The state in which a piece of electronic communication becomes, when it is apparent that it has been lost somewhere between the source and the destination address.
For internal systems replace ether with intra
Person #1 : Did you get that email?
Person #2 : What email?
Person #1 : The one I sent
Person #2 : No? I'm sure...no way..didn't arrive in my mailbox!
Short Pause
Person #1 and #2 say together: Oh no!!! It's been ethernicked
by eCJM August 6, 2007
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