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From: ahd@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: Support your local PostMaster
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Date: 30 Sep 90 16:16:59 GMT
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From article <7999@gollum.twg.com>, by david@twg.com (David S. Herron):
> In article <1639.26ffec90@dcs.simpact.com> jeh@dcs.simpact.com writes:
> If I were trying to reach your system administrator, and had no idea
> who that was, I'd try various things like "root" and "sysadm".  I wouldn't
> necessarily try "postmaster" ..

Then I suggest you start doing do.  After all, I started this round with
the specific comment that POSTMASTER is an Internet standard, and that
a reasonable standard like that accepted on a network that big is not a
bad idea.

Any reason not to?

-ahd-