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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>netlag</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="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="netiquette.html" title="netiquette"/><link rel="next" href="netnews.html" title="netnews"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">netlag</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="netiquette.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="netnews.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="netlag"/><dt xmlns="" id="netlag"><b>netlag</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [IRC, MUD] A condition that occurs when the delays in the
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<a href="../I/IRC.html"><i class="glossterm">IRC</i></a> network or on a <a href="../M/MUD.html"><i class="glossterm">MUD</i></a>
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become severe enough that servers briefly lose and then reestablish
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contact, causing messages to be delivered in bursts, often with delays of
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up to a minute. (Note that this term has nothing to do with mainstream
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“<span class="quote">jet lag</span>”, a condition which hackers tend not to be much
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