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From: wmartin@brl-smoke.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: "news.sa" and "news.adm" groups?
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 15:03:26 EST
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I've been trying to figure out just what the difference is between
"net.news.sa" and "net.news.adm", and why there should be two groups
instead of just one. The same stuff seems to get cross-posted to both
groups; is there anyone out there that reads one and not the other?

The info in the master "groups" list isn't too helpful:

>     net.news.adm      Comments directed to news administrators.
>     net.news.sa       Comments directed to system administrators.

Since these are subgroups of "net.news", the topics discussed therein
would only be news-system-related ones, so the "sa" group would be, it
appears, devoted to topics related to the news system, but directed
toward system administrators but *not* to news administrators, on those
systems where the offices are not combined. This seems rather narrowly
targeted, doesn't it?

Since the traffic in these is light, this isn't worthy of a crusade
or even much thought, but it's something I've wondered for some years,
and I don't recall seeing discussion on the topic. Is there some
specific justification for there being two distinct groups?

Will