User selectable mailboxes

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From: "Robert W. Kerns"
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 1984 12:06

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I 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.

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Subject: User selectable mailboxes
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