I've wondered for some time why mod_imap is turned on by default. Perhaps it was for historical reasons. But it is also turned on by default in 2.0, which seems odd, since it's pretty certain that nobody has used this module since about 1996 when Netscape 2.0b1 came out with client-side imagemap support.
I was wondering what the procedure is for removing a module from the default-on list (ie, the political procedure, not the technical one) and if there was any real feeling that this should still be in there, or if it is purely for historical reasons. The Smart Sysadmins Principle (or something like that) says that you should not be running services (or modules) that you are not actually using. But almost every Apache installation on the planet is running this module, although I would suspect that the vast majority of those running it have no idea what it is for, and have never used it. So, anyways, I'd really like to see it dropped from the "on by default" list, in both 1.3 and 2.0. I have similar feelings about mod_asis, but less strongly. -- Pilgrim, how you journey on the road you chose To find out where the winds die and where the stories go --Pilgrim (Enya - A Day Without Rain)
