Chris Withers writes:

I wonder why starting folders with _ is so bad in Zope? In the time, when everything was allowed what was not explicitely forbidden, an easy way was necessary to forbid access. Jim (and, therefore, Zope) used:

anything starting with "_" is private: no DTML access, no Web access. Now, with the change to a security policy "Everything is forbidden when not explicitely allowed", the need for such a rule based on naming dwindles. Maybe, it will disappear sometime in the future. Dieter