Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

[Timothy Murphy]

Tim wrote:

>> Also I assume if They start a service by default
>> They must have some reason to do that.
> 
> There's quite a few "running by default" services that don't seem
> sensible defaults.  e.g. There's an ISDN service, and that's such an
> unusual type of comms that I'd expect anyone using it would know how to
> turn on the service for themselves.

I noticed that.
It was such an odd choice I assumed that some program must use something
from the ISDN service.
I guessed it was probably NetworkManager, which seems to use everything.


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