Is there a reason why /var/spool/mail permissions are not 01777?

As things stand (0775), Netscape's newsreader claims that it can't
download articles without a separate movemail program (which I assume
needs to be setuid root).  My Soalris machine has /var/mail with 
permissions 01777.

Thanks.

                Matthew Saltzman
                Clemson University Math Sciences
                [EMAIL PROTECTED]
                http://www.math.clemson.edu/faculty/Saltzman


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