[14798] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.0I: bogus README file when logged in with temporary directory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hoffmann@MIT.EDU)
Sun Nov 3 07:31:20 1996
From: hoffmann@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 07:31:15 -0500
To: jhawk@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, postmaster@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199611030950.EAA03488@lola-granola.MIT.EDU> (message from John Hawkinson on Sun, 3 Nov 1996 04:50:17 -0500)
The big picture is as follows:
the post office servers aren't a filesystem.
we don't back up the spool on post office
servers for the purpose of recovering user
files, only as a hedge against drive failure
we can't guarantee that the user's data will
be preserved so it's a false statement to
say that the users's files will be safe on
the PO servers.
the operators of the mail system have never bought
off on that statement being in that README file.
I'm not interested in debating this in the bugs list, my
request is as an operator of the mail system for the file
to be modified as requested.
-Ron
