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From: matt@oddjob.UChicago.EDU (Sherlock, the keen-eyed detective)
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Subject: Re: The USENET Backbone (Last changed: 30 April 1987)
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Date: Mon, 4-May-87 21:43:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  4 21:43:00 1987
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In article <15219@gatech.gatech.edu> usenet@gatech.edu writes:
) [Most recent change: 30 April 1987 by spaf]
) 
) A Usenet "backbone" site is one which exchanges every (non-local) news
) article it receives with at least two other backbone sites; or which is

After a couple unanswered mail messages to Gene I still don't
understand the application of this definition.  If all the links
in a chain like
		ihnp4 -- x -- y -- hao
are low-delay and full feeds, are x & y then backbone sites?
Is the answer different in a case like ihnp4 -- z -- hao?

		Matt Crawford