Taking one step out of setting up a performant deployment could
make setup and administration easier (at the cost of installing
an extra-but-common XS module). This can also be useful for
the day NNTP servers see hug-of-death events.
* TLS support for various daemons (including STARTTLS for NNTP and POP3)
+* optional Cache::FastMmap support so production deployments won't
+ need Varnish (Varnish doesn't protect NNTP, either)
+
* dogfood and take advantage of new kernel APIs (while maintaining
portability to older Linux, free BSDs and maybe Hurd).