> (see, this is why posting via forums is like cancer. Hint: the forum
> rarely sends the context, also not to forget the quoted first line in
> the thread opener)

A proper forum would do that..

> To address your concerns about nginx configuration, simply put it's not
> worth the developers time to reduce configuration to such a level of

Are you a nginx developer?

> ease and thereby possibly breaking the configuration of some beast who
> wants to run ssl+spdy on port 80.

That configuration would have a listen line, so the default wouldn't apply and updating the default wouldn't break it.