Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU!mcs.kent.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news From: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Network-wide Mail Spool? Message-ID: <1990Nov29.194858.7218@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 29 Nov 90 19:48:58 GMT References: <1990Nov5.213421.6864@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Reply-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA) Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu In article mitch@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@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@ins.CWRU.Edu My opinions are just those, and mine alone.