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On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Alex Efros wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 06:21:27PM -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
>> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iconoclast
>
> Very informative. And who is iconoclast here? djb? me? you?

djb is nothing if not iconoclastic.

> DJB is smart, and if he doesn't used /var/{log,run} and put everything in
> same directory, I'd like to know his reasons.

If he has written down his thoughts about those particular file location 
conventions, they might be here:

http://cr.yp.to/unix.html