From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 31 15:45:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA17455 for current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:45:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA17450 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:45:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA26617; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:38:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199610312338.QAA26617@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:38:56 -0700 (MST) Cc: lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at, terry@lambert.org, dubois@primate.wisc.edu, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael Hancock" at Nov 1, 96 08:33:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Got me on the first one, but the prankster has to predict names. It's > probably acceptable for a lot of sites. > > In the second case use an administrative program that sends mail each time > an account is created. Bletch. Now you are encoding state in things which may not match the system vendor's idea of defaults. This would be bad. The choice to send a "welcome" message is an administrative issue, not a system usage issue. The choice to use something that deletes empty mailboxes by default (like -- elm) is a user issue, not a system usage issue. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.