Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> And why do I need a web server installed *at all* on my workstation?

I use them all the time. I'm sitting in a cafe. "Oh, you want that
picture? Here's the URL -- just pull it across the 802.11." (I say
this sitting in a cafe, right now, running bozohttpd and having last
used it this way a couple of days ago.)

Now you rightfully might argue "who needs that" -- but then again, why
do you need an ftpd, or a tftpd, and you have one of both of those on
your laptop when you're sitting in a cafe.

> The same argument applies for a full-blown MTA... any "real" mail server
> could build sendmail or postfix or qmail or exim from pkgsrc.

I run a full blown MTA on every single machine I own that runs Unix.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com