Network-wide Mail Spool?
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Fri Nov 30 06:48:58 AEST 1990
In article <MITCH.90Nov27190330 at hq.af.mil> mitch at hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) writes:
[I wrote asking for the advantages of having a network-wide mail spool]
>Well, I have one.
>
>o If I finger Joeuser at Podunk.Edu, it will normally let me know what the
> oldest unread mail message is so I can determine if he's read my mail
> yet. This is very handy... to me at least
True. That's not a consideration for us for two reasons: we don't run
straight BSD finger -- it doesn't scale well to 15,000+-line password files
served via YP -- and some paranoid folks around here have complained to the
University vice president of information services that divulging such
information is a violation of their privacy.
Chet
--
Chet Ramey ``I die, Horatio''
Network Services Group, Case Western Reserve University
chet at ins.CWRU.Edu
My opinions are just those, and mine alone.
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