In message <E0yCiHr-0003Ga-00@spring.nexus.co.uk>,
          pb@nexus.co.uk (Philip Blundell) wrote:

Mumble, mumble, lists which don't use a modified reply-to ...

> No, but if you have separate ones it allows you to mount /usr readonly, and
> gives you some protection from accidentally filling your entire disk.

Hmmm, true - but for "single user" use it shouldn't be that much of a
problem and does mean that the unused bits of the "root" parition can be put
to good use in /usr.