Greg Troxel wrote in <smuzht818gn....@linuxpal.mit.edu>: |Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> writes: | |> It does no harm as it is, if you don't use the client, all it does is |> occupy a couple of hundred blocks (nothing), the server is not |> enabled by default, and it is even smaller. | |I agree. I use it often, to see if TCP ports are open and hand-type |smtp or http. | |Another point is that as a BSD system, we at least used to have a |respect for history and tradition. That has to have a balance - we did |get rid of sendmail. But removing longstanding programs (that don't run |by default) because some people don't like them, as part of what feels |like a larger deletionist crusade, is not ok.
I like that. --End of <smuzht818gn....@linuxpal.mit.edu> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
