Network-wide Mail Spool?

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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



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Chet Ramey				``I die, Horatio''
Network Services Group, Case Western Reserve University
chet at ins.CWRU.Edu
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