Hackish

Our site, ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix, was recently subjected to incredibly high loads caused by the interaction of the various uucp software, two receiving sites, and news transmission. Fortunately we're out of that thicket for now, but only in a hackish sort of way. We trickle articles into inews and have terminated one of our neighbors. The other two possibilities (news batching and uucp sub-dirs) were considered and will probably be adopted at some point.

A hackish solution is to use code switching, a technique of replacing a byte with a sequence of bytes headed by a special control character.

The first two hacks in this chapter provide, well, hackish solutions to that conundrum.

hackish slang; a hackish sense of humor