Public Directories

[Ryan Dean Bair]

Unless I am missing something, I don't believe there is currently a public 
directory in Ubuntu or an obvious way to implement one. 

On my machine I have a folder /home/pub which uses ACLs to make it readable 
and writeable by all users on the system, newly added content also remains 
publically accessable. This works great for my wife and I to easily exchange 
documents, and keep our picture collection accessable to both of us.

Perhaps something like this could be implemented by default for a future 
release.

Thoughts?