May 15, 2003

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). Compare postmaster, sysop, system mangler.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:59 AM

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