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On 27 Feb 2001, at 14:53, Godfrey Oswald wrote: > Now thats something: > > NetLingo Internet dictionary, Webopedia, and Whatis.com all prefer > "webmaster" spelling convention. > > hmm.. I am lost here: if they all like "web site" why not "web master" > then? Presumably because the people who set up web servers were used to setting up email systems. An email system is maintained by the postmaster, so the obvious title for someone who maintains a web server would be webmaster. Postmaster doesn't have a space in email systems because in normal usage (e.g. Postmaster General) it doesn't have one (and also because spaces are a nuisance in email addresses). Regards Bernard Treves Brown