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Subject: Re: link() security
To: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
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> Not to mention the fact that the single file mailbox design is itself
> flawed.  Mailboxes are fundamentally directories, which news server
> authors quickly realized.

And then unrealized when they hit performance limitations. Its a trade off
and one that most news systems seem to prefer to use a custom database
for
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