Re: /var/mail back to /var/spool/mail
In message <[🔎] 199806021735.NAA01525@sideshow.redhat.com>, Bryan Andregg writes:
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| 3. There isn't a good reason to go to /var/mail.
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I disagree. Linux is diverging from the rest of the Unix community with
/var/spool/mail; as a software developer, I would prefer consistency.
I would also prefer *not* to see the Linux community follow a Microsoft-ish
"we have the users, we will dictate the course as we see fit" course.
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carnegie mellon university (bsa@kf8nh is still valid.)
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