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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
Subject: Re: "news.sa" and "news.adm" groups?
Message-ID: <1848@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 13:02:18 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 13:02:18 1986
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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 are even sites where an ordinary user
put up netnews because the computer center doesn't want to mess with it.

>Since these are subgroups of "net.news", the topics discussed therein
>would only be news-system-related ones,

Actually, it's net.news.sa because there is no other group that's well
suited to be the parent, and because net.news tends to be better
distributed than many other net.all newsgroups, so it reaches more places.

	Mark