2014-04-26 14:52:28 +00:00
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hairball
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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n. 1. [Fidonet] A large batch of messages that a store-and-forward network
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is failing to forward when it should. Often used in the phrase Fido coughed
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up a hairball today , meaning that the stuck messages have just come
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unstuck, producing a flood of mail where there had previously been drought.
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2. An unmanageably huge mass of source code. JWZ thought the Mozilla effort
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bogged down because the code was a huge hairball. 3. Any large amount of
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garbage coming out suddenly. Sendmail is coughing up a hairball, so expect
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some slowness accessing the Internet.
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