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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hairball</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="hair.html" title="hair"/><link rel="next" href="hairy.html" title="hairy"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hairball</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hair.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hairy.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hairball"/><dt xmlns="" id="hairball"><b>hairball</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [Fidonet] A large batch of messages that a store-and-forward
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network is failing to forward when it should. Often used in the phrase
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“<span class="quote">Fido coughed up a hairball today</span>”, meaning that the stuck
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messages have just come unstuck, producing a flood of mail where there had
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previously been drought. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. An unmanageably huge mass of source code. “<span class="quote">JWZ thought the
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Mozilla effort bogged down because the code was a huge hairball.</span>”
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</p></dd><dd><p> 3. Any large amount of garbage coming out suddenly. “<span class="quote">Sendmail
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is coughing up a hairball, so expect some slowness accessing the
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Internet.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="hair.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../H.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="hairy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">hair </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> hairy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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