Revisiting cron -- Re: crontab

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 11/18/2010 09:49 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:35:16 -0500
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>    
>> Then why is it still there, leading one to think they can edit it for
>> global cron jobs?
>>      
> You can edit it for global cron jobs (or you can drop files
> in the /etc/cron.d/ directory). In fact I do edit it: I move
> everything out of the /etc/anacrontab file and back into
> /etc/crontab where it will run at a known time rather than
> a random time (or course, I have to change the syntax and
> say what time I want it to run).
>    

OK. But what about: 
http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/courses/2004-February/001389.html 
which is old, but says that there is a user field in the /etc/crontab 
version? Is there?