Deal with some BSD issues raised by Vivek Khera. First, add a README

file containing Vivek's comments.  Second, in the Makefile.in, allow
the installer to override the chmod command on the directories.

-Barry

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+Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System
+Copyright (C) 1998 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
+
+BSD ISSUES
+
+Vivek Khera writes that BSD does nightly security scans for setuid
+file changes.  Setgid directories also come up on the scan when they
+change.  He says that setgid bit is not necessary on BSD systems
+because group ownership is automatically inherited on files created in 
+directories.  On other Un*xes, this only happens when the directory
+has the setgid bit turned on.
+
+To install without turning on the setgid bit on directories, simply
+pass in the DIRSETGID variable to make, like so:
+
+    % make DIRSETGID=: install
+
+This turns off the chmod g+s on each directory as they are installed.
+
+
+Local Variables:
+mode: text
+indent-tabs-mode: nil
+End: