shap@ucbvax.berkeley.edu@sfdww.UUCP (01/07/87)
It is clear that whether or not I said the right thing I said it in the wrong medium in the wrong way to the wrong people. I apologize. A number of items I have seen now have blasted superusers in the same way that I let forth on rms - without thinking it through. Disk space is in practice too tight a commodity to let quotas handle the problem. Giving everyone sufficiently small quotas that sum of quotas < disk size is often too prohibitive. The essential distinction is between archive and backup, as has already been discussed. This is why I proposed different naming conventions. I don't suppose I need to point out to anyone that I, at least, need to listen to my advice. Jon Shapiro