Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:38:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Cc: lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at, terry@lambert.org, dubois@primate.wisc.edu, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) Message-ID: <199610312338.QAA26617@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.961101082343.2317A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> from "Michael Hancock" at Nov 1, 96 08:33:20 am
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> 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.
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