I am in favor of this and also putting the service directory in .hgignore. Creation of log files would be nice too.

On May 20, 2015 11:16:35 AM PDT, sl@9front.org wrote:
>Why are so many services enabled by default?
>
>I propose to disable the following in the default install by moving
>them from tcp* to !tcp*.  Functionality can be enabled by simply
>copying !tcp* back to tcp* (and following whatever other procedures
>were already required).
>
>Let's turn these off:
>
>	tcp110	# pop3
>	tcp143	# imap
>	tcp21	# ftp
>	tcp23	# telnet
>	tcp25	# smtp
>	tcp53	# dns
>	tcp513	# rlogind
>	tcp993	# imap over tls
>	tcp995	# pop3 over tls
>
>In addition: Items that are left enabled by default (and really, even
>the ones disabled by default) should be checked to ensure that the
>installer creates the log files they attempt to write to.
>
>I volunteer to do this if no one objects.
>
>sl