Voting for packages, was: Ubuntu is under attack

[David]

I started this thread because I discovered mailx and MTA packages were 
missing.  Whether the MTA is postfix, sendmail or some other thing is a 
matter of choice, not relevant to the discussion.

What needs discussing - hopefully brought to the attention of the gods of 
ubuntu - is why a useful (and harmless?) package should suddenly disappear.

Why NOT have an MTA? Why NOT have mailx? They are not inconsequential 
choices. Are they less important than the seventeen games included in the 
standard CD install?

When the root terminal disappeared from the menu, it wasn't hard to 
understand the thinking, but loosing the MTA/mailx seems like dumbing down 
to me, and I believe it should be avoided at all costs.

If nobody mentions it we are just failing to vote.