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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: the purpose of news.sysadmin
Message-ID: <1989Oct27.231726.14313@rpi.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 89 23:17:26 GMT
References: <18084@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In <18084@bellcore.bellcore.com> tr@bellcore.com (tom reingold) writes:
Tom> Am I wrong in thinking that a system administrator's newsgroup is
Tom> sorely missing?

Not completely; as you noted earlier in your article the name
news.sysadmin doesn't really convey the right message because it makes
the system administration of a machine seem to be a subset of USENET.
So the group isn't really missing, it's just not being used for what
was intended.  See why these arguments arise over the importance of a
good name?

There is a new mailing list for system administrators, not just
sun-managers, but I don't recall the address.  Perhaps an attempt
should be made to move news.sysadmin to comp.sysadmin.  Maybe it can
wait until a more global reorganisation takes place, so we can move
merge news.software.b and news.software.nntp together to news.software
at the same time.
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