Public Directories

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:37:40 -0500
"Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I think a 'common' folder that every user gets full r/w access would
> > be great idea
> 
> So why can't people that want it create it?
> 
> $ sudo mkdir /usr/share/public
> $ sudo chmod 1777 /usr/share/public
> 
> Done.  Why does this need to come with the operating system's default install?

Oh, I absolutely agree.

Why can't people write their letters with vi? Starts faster than Open
Office and uses less resources, and it's part of every standard *nix
system....

And it's trivial to set up mutt...

And you can do almost anything with screen and ssh.

*cough*

Just kidding. 

But really.... are you serious?

Peter