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.