I think there is a miscommunication; I intended to suggest that the names could reflect the fact that they were by and for emacs, not that the names should not look like directories. Nearly all of my computers have _many_ directories with names that look like directories and are clearly by and for emacs, so this seemed like a reasonable suggestion. Perhaps there's some reason unknown to me that these directories need to look like they're part of general system services (similar to /proc and /mnt, as demonstrated up-thread); in that case, please pardon the suggestion.

Thanks,

~Chad