On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 21:01, Marc Haber wrote:
> > I believe this was done because there is some Debian policy that a
> > weird user name must be created in this case.
> 
> No, the weird account name was chosen in absense of a formal policy
> to minimize the chance of clashes with account names deliberately
> created by the local admin.

I never did understand: what was the problem with "mail"?

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