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Subject: Re: Floppies - Actual Question
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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote at 00:28 this Monday (GMT):
> On 2025-09-28, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:36:43 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>
>>> On 28/09/2025 15:07, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>>
>>>> User data can live outside /home ...
>>>> 
>>> Indeed and /var is traditionally where *shared* user data like a MySQL
>>> database  or log files would live.
>>
>> None of that is user-specific, though.
>>
>> The only per-user data I can think of that used to be kept in /var is mail 
>> in /var/mail (or /var/spool/mail, if you’re really going back) and 
>> periodic timer tasks in /var/spool/cron.
>>
>> Maildir gets rid of the former, systemd gets rid of the latter.
>
> For what it's worth, my Usenet groups (including this message) are
> stored in /var/spool/slrnpull.  For some reason (I don't recall
> doing it consciously), my .bashrc contains the line
>
> export SLRNPULL_ROOT=/var/spool/slrnpull
>
> Go figure.


I personally save all my group messages in ~/News/slrnpull/news.
I think I originally saved it in ~/.cache/slrnpull, but I was
worried about accidentily deleting it when clearing the cache
folder for more space.
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom