You're not going to find a whole lot of folks who feel that default settings in a Debian distribution for mail services are "giving Linux a bad name", but nonetheless...
Most Unix users probably don't pick up their mail with Netscape. They use MTA's and MUA's as they were originally designed and laid-out to be used and they run their own mail servers. You could have removed exim from the system after installation if you didn't want that functionality. Most of us use it (or another MTA) on a daily basis, so it's not "wrong" to have it enabled by default. If you didn't read any of the security stuff about your system and then found out about it later, how does that make it the distribution's fault that things were running you didn't know about? The distribution does not claim to protect you from yourself. Unix never has, and never will protect the user/admin from lack of knowledge. Welcome to the wild world of being on a "trusted" network with people you probably shouldn't really trust. :) Nate, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
