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Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
> What do we care if the first letter is an underscore?  What is so
> frightening about '_' that we *must* not use it?  This seems like a
> reasonable convention to me, whether or not we happened to start it.

I don't mind conventions, even foreign ones.  What I mind is mixing
them.  If we want to adopt this convention, then we should adopt it
consistently, and add leading underscores to all our system accounts.

DES
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