Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!RWK%SCRC-YUKON@MIT-MC.ARPA From: RWK%SCRC-YUKON@MIT-MC.ARPA ("Robert W. Kerns") Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: User selectable mailboxes Message-ID: <349@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 07:06:00 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.349 Posted: Wed Feb 29 07:06:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 07:27:55 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 13 To: DPK@BRL-VGR.ARPA, Reilly@UDEL-RELAY.ARPA, Steve@UCL-CS.ARPA Cc: Header-People@MIT-MC.ARPA In-Reply-To: The message of 28 Feb 84 23:30-EST from Doug KingstonI don't understand. This seems to be purely an internal issue between your system management and the users you want to restrict to creating mailboxes with only certain names. Any system I've had much truck with has always let people create mailboxes under any name whatsoever. Why do we need a convention for the sake of sites that want to be restrictive? Anyone sending to this user's special mailbox has to know the name of the special-purpose mailbox anyway, and agree to use that name. Presumably he has to be told anyway. People do this all the time with mass-mailing lists, with names like SMITH-JUNK, etc.