Sentence:  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 <WSD>hackish</WSD> 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. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.