> No one has actually answered Paul's question about why it has to exist.  I'm 
> curious about that too for my own edification.  Just because its always been 
> there and things *might* expect it isn't a very good reason in my opinion.

Historically so that games could run as their own user so they could
update the shared high score files.

Alan

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