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• admin /ad-min'/ n. Short for `administrator'; very commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer.
  Common constructions on this include `sysadmin' and `site admin' (emphasizing the administrator's role as a site contact for email and news) or `newsadmin' (focusing specifically on news)....
• admin: /ad-min'/ n. Short for `administrator'; very commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer.
  Common constructions on this include `sysadmin' and `site admin' (emphasizing the administrator's role as a site contact for email and news) or `newsadmin' (focusing specifically on news)....
• ystem mangler n. Humorous synonym for `system manager', poss.
  from the fact that one major IBM OS had a root account called SYSMANGR....
• SysVile /sis-vi:l'/ n. See Missed'em-five.
• ystem mangler: n. Humorous synonym for `system manager', poss.
  from the fact that one major IBM OS had a {root} account called SYSMANGR....
• postmaster n. The email contact and maintenance person at a site connected to the Internet or UUCPNET.
  Often, but not always, the same as the admin. The Internet standard for electronic mail (RFC-822) requires each machine to have a `postmaster' addre...
• CTY: /sit'ee/ or /C-T-Y/ n. [MIT] The terminal physically associated with a computer's system {{console}}.
  The term is a contraction of `Console {tty}', that is, `Console TeleTYpe'....
• A system admin's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over Emergency Room doctors is that malpractice suits are rare.
  On the other hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions of their own innards!...
• Quote #62 "A system admin's life is a sorry one.
  The only advantage he has over Emergency Room doctors is that malpractice suits are rare....