Why are user inboxes called "user.some-user" ?

[Conrad Kleinespel]

Hello Bron,

To answer your question: I don't know.

Thanks for the use case.

Best regards,

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On Mon, Jul 20, 2015, at 03:24 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015, at 04:21, Conrad Kleinespel wrote:
> > However, my question was meant to ask why we even need to separate
> > things into "user/..." and "netnews/..." and "shared/..." instead of
> > just handling everything through the ACL extension (which should allow
> > to have shared mailboxes by given read only access, right?).
> > 
> > I understand that we have those abstractions in place but I don't yet
> > understand why we need those abstractions.
> > 
> > For instance, why couldn't we put everything in the same namespace:
> >     root
> >         comp.mail.imap
> >         fred
> > 
> > and when a user "fred" wants access to the mailbox, just request "fred"
> > instead of "user.fred" ?
> 
> How you get a listing of all the actual users on a server without getting
> a
> bunch of other noise?
> 
> Namespacing is good.  I have no problem with prefixing user mailboxes
> with
> 'user'.  It's incredibly self-documenting.
> 
> Bron.
> 
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