Sysop

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sysop
/sis´op/
Usage: n.
Derivation: Esp. in the BBS world


sysop: /sis´op/ n.

[esp. in the BBS world] The operator (and usually the owner) of a bulletin-board system. A common neophyte mistake on FidoNet is to address a message to sysop in an international FidoNet board, thus sending it to hundreds of sysops around the world.

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Source: sysop, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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