Linux's Role in SBAY.ORG
SBAY.ORG's Integrated E-Mail Routing

pathalias computes the shortest paths between all sites

sitename.sbay.org is the same on Internet and UUCP

UUCP sites get a list of the shortest paths to everyone else

This can detect if the fastest path between sites uses the Internet or not

Some Internet participants are willing to be dynamically assigned as an MX host for UUCP hosts. These sites are called "points of entry".

UUCP sites which can handle upstream and downstream feeds are "hubs".

UUCP sites with only one neighbor are "leaf nodes". Most non-Unix BBS sites are leaf nodes.

December 1997 Silicon Valley Linux User's Group Meeting
Presented by Ian Kluft, December 3, 1997