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title: SSB Log Entry 465
date: 2020-04-13T20:41:48-05:00
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# Question About Bamboo Terminology

Below I've "invented" two terms. Is there a real name for the thing I am referring to in #bamboo ?

**"normal backlink"**: A Bamboo message where the `lipmaalink` property is equal to (seqnum-1).
In a feed of length 20, the "normal backlinks" would be: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20.

**"long backlink"**: A message where the `lipmaalink` property is NOT equal to (seqnum-1)
In a feed of length 20, the "long backlinks" would be: 4, 8, 12, 13, 17.