The parts of CPAN that really make it tick...  things that are central mirrors, etc



- PAUSE

    - first-tier mirrors use this:          http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Rsync-Mirror-Recent/HOWTO.mirrorcpan


- most recently-uploaded modules

    http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.mtime.html


- BackPAN

    - really just another PAUSE mirror, mirrored via rsync, but without the --delete option

    - read more here:           http://paperlined.org/dev/perl/cpan/backpan/backpan.html