Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.3) 9/5/84; site epimass.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!akguc!codas!peora!pesnta!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group Subject: Re: "news.sa" and "news.adm" groups? Message-ID: <161@epimass.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 17:38:59 EST Article-I.D.: epimass.161 Posted: Mon Feb 24 17:38:59 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Feb-86 08:14:52 EST References: <1067@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1848@cbosgd.UUCP> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.news:4634 net.news.group:5122 In article <1848@cbosgd.UUCP> mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) writes: >In article <1067@brl-smoke.ARPA> wmartin@brl-smoke.UUCP writes: >>> net.news.adm Comments directed to news administrators. >>> net.news.sa Comments directed to system administrators. > >There is an important difference. The system administrator is not >necessarily the netnews administrator. The two people are the same >on most sites, but there are many sites where, as a condition for >getting news, some other user or staff person had to agree to run >the netnews software. There's an important difference in principle. But there is NO difference in practice. System administrators tend to discuss their problems in net.unix-wizards or other lists. I've never seen an article in net.news.sa that would be inappropriate for net.news.adm. In short, if what you are saying is true, then net.news.sa has never been used correctly. -- - Joe Buck This sentence is false.