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From: vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A Thought Experiment about News.Groups
Message-ID: <8801@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 31 May 89 18:26:39 GMT
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In article <3254@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
)We don't need no steenking backbone.  That's why it is no more.
)-- Joe Buck	jbuck@epimass.epi.com, uunet!epimass.epi.com!jbuck

	A minor kwibble...  The backbone as a group running the net  
(a gross overstatement) no longer exists... But there still exists a
group of experienced sysadmins talking to each other (Occationally.)   
And in sense of traffic flow...

	I'm looking at a map of the US with data charted from Brian's
inpaths program.  I don't know if it is the version with just the test
sites or data from all over the network, but it shows a backbone with
the major nodes being (approx. from east to west), mcvax, rutgers, uunet,
ohio state, Utexas,ucbvax and something I can't read (ill-winke ??), with
a scattering of 'minor' sites (ncar, husc6, purdue, mailrus, etc.)  I'd 
say that the backbone is alive and well, it just isn't trying to run
things anymore...


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