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        Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>
Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) 
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 06:35:48 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 	Mark argued that FreeBSD is technically "unsupported" ... but
> that BSDi/NetBSD were ... if that's the case, then are they setting 
> their /var/mail to 1777?  Or do their admins go through the same 

BSD/OS 2.1:

jkh@spatter-> ls -ld /var/mail/
drwxrwxr-x  2 root  mail  512 Sep  6 02:03 /var/mail/