Anpois.127 net.general utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!houxi!npois!jak Mon Jan 4 10:08:53 1982 Re: contact user names Most systems I know of have netnews installed under user id "news" Netnews statistics reports etc are mailed to this user id on our system. As was suggested, it is an alias for the real news administrator (me). I know of many other systems which use "news" for this purpose. Let's not create another user id for the contact person if this one is as common as I think it is. Jim Kutsch (npois!jak or npois!news) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.