Mon, 23 May 1994 20:16:11 +0200
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On Mon, 23 May 1994 14:14:00 EDT "Peter M. Weiss +1 814 863 1843"
<[log in to unmask]> said:
>I note that some LISTSERV sites are BACKBONE but not DISTRIBUTE in the
>LISTSERV PEERS db. Having searched the lstown-l notebook archives for
>these two terms by sender=ERIC, I'm not really sure what the 4
>combinations of attributes mean.
Actually, there are only 3 possible combinations: backbone=NO implies
DISTRIBUTE=NO. But there are other options, such as LISTS or UDD. You can
view backbone=YES as an "entry ticket" giving you access to a number of
additional services, but at an extra cost in resources and uptime
commitment (which is no longer a big deal, but in 1986 things were
different). A backbone server receives, among other things, information
about all the lists in the network. By default, a backbone server also
participates in DISTRIBUTE deliveries, but this can be turned off with
DISTRIBUTE=NO.
Eric
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