how to ignore $HOME/.qmail ?

[Matt Harrington]

i'd like ~joe/.qmail to be ignored by qmail.  i don't want qmail to check 
if ~joe exists at all.  instead, i'd like /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-joe to 
be the only file consulted.

i put this line in /var/qmail/users/assign:


=joe:alias:81:81:/var/qmail/alias:-:joe:


but qmail-newu complains:

msg# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu
qmail-newu: fatal: bad format in users/assign


what am i doing wrong?

---Matt