[news.sysadmin] Combine news.admin and news.sysadmin

mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch) (05/31/89)

There's a minor bit of namespace cleanup I'd like to propose: the
merger of news.admin and news.sysadmin into a single group (to remain
news.admin).  As a follow-on, I'd like to suggest a group for systems
administration issues to live under the "comp" hierarchy where it
belongs. (E.g., rename "news.sysadmin" to "comp.sysadmin or
comp.system-administration".)

The problem with the two groups as they exist is that few people perceive
a difference between them.  News.admin is suppsed to contain "comments
directed to news administrators", which is relatively clear, but 
news.sysadmin is supposed to contain "comments directed to systems
administrators", which is straightforward, but since the group is in
the "news.*" hierarchy, few people seem to understand this.

There is certainly a need for a system administration newsgroup, but
it belongs in comp.*, not news.*.  It should be relatively trivial
process to move it.

Michael C. Berch  
News/mail admin, tis.llnl.gov systems
mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov / uunet!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!mcb