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• ib site n. [by analogy with backbone site] A machine that has an on-demand high-speed link to a backbone site and serves as a regional distribution point for lots of third-party traffic in email and Usenet news.
  Compare leaf site, backbone site....
• backbone site: n. A key USENET and email site; one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic
  especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the USENET maps....
• leaf site: n. A machine that merely originates and reads USENET news or mail, and does not relay any third-party traffic.
  Often uttered in a critical tone; when the ratio of leaf sites to backbone, rib, and other relay sites gets too high, the network tends to develop bottlenecks....
• leaf site n.,obs. Before pervasive TCP/IP, this term was used of a machine that merely originated and read Usenet news or mail, and did not relay any third-party traffic.
  It was often uttered in a critical tone; when the ratio of leaf sites to backbone, rib, and other relay sites got too high, the network tended to develop bottlenecks....
• backbone site n.,obs. Formerly, a key Usenet and email site
  one that processes a large amount of third-party traffic, especially if it is the home site of any of the regional coordinators for the Usenet maps....
• backbone cabal: n. A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the {Great Renaming} and reined in the chaos of {USENET} during most of the 1980s.
  The cabal {mailing list} disbanded in late 1988 after a bitter internal catfight....
• admin: /ad-min'/ n. Short for `administrator'; very commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer.
  Common constructions on this include `sysadmin' and `site admin' (emphasizing the administrator's role as a site contact for email and news) or `newsadmin' (focusing specifically on news)....
• bounce message: [UNIX] n. Notification message returned to sender by a site unable to relay {email} to the intended {{Internet address}} recipient or the next link in a {bang path} (see {bounce}
  ense 1). Reasons might include a nonexistent or misspelled username or a {down} relay site....
• well-connected: adj. Said of a computer installation, asserts that it has reliable email links with the network and/or that it relays a large fraction of available {USENET} newsgroups.
  `Well-known' can be almost synonymous, but also implies that the site's name is familiar to many (due perhaps to an archive service or active USENET users)....