s-o-1036 June 1994

9.3. Administrator Contact

It is desirable to have a standardized contact address for a
relayer's  administrators, in the spirit of the "postmaster"
address for mail administrators.  Mail addressed  to  "news-
master"  on a relayer's host MUST go to the administrator(s)
of  that  relayer.   Mail  addressed  to  "usenet"  on   the
relayer's  host  SHOULD be handled likewise.  Mail addressed
to either  address  on  other  hosts  using  the  same  news
database SHOULD be handled likewise.

     NOTE: These addresses are case-sensitive, although
     it would be desirable for sequences equivalent  to
     them  using case-insensitive comparison to be han-
     dled likewise.  While "newsmaster" seems the  pre-
     ferred  network-independent address, by analogy to
     "postmaster", there is  an  existing  practice  of
     using  "usenet"  for this purpose, and so "usenet"
     should be supported if at all possible (especially

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     on  hosts  belonging  to  Usenet!).   The  address
     `news" is also sometimes used  for  purposes  like
     this, but less consistently.