> Is there some more info on this "graffiti"? What's the intention? How is > it used? How is it managed? Any quota on it?
"graffiti" is an imap hierarchy on CMU's Cyrus installation. The intention is to provide a place for people to create arbitrary shared mailboxes, for whatever use. It is essentially unmanaged; all of the mailboxes in the hierarchy are pruned from time to time, but apart from that, we essentially ignore it. There is no quota, but messages expire after some time period (90 days, if I recall correctly). Historically, users have used it somewhat like the USENET alt hierarchy. People would create mailboxes for nearly anything, from flame wars, to unofficial student organization discussions, to public journals (in the pre-blog world). Usage has declined over time in favor of other venues - blogs and such. In our previous (pre-IMAP) mailsystem (AMS), simply sending mail to the posting address automatically created the relevant mailbox. That ability was not carried over to the new system, instead we set the ACL on the top level to allow any user to create a subfolder. -jeaton -- Jeffrey T. Eaton esp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Systems Programmer Carnegie-Mellon University ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
