(idea) by Jargon Wed Feb 01 2006 at 14:13:54
RFE = R = rice box

rib 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.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, this entry manually entered by rootbeer277.

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