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what to do with a server?

got 2 servers and a 8mbit/1mbit (download/upload) connection. the first server is a 1,4ghz with 256mb ram and the second one is a 433mhz with 192mb ram. they both have a 80gb wdc hdd. Selling them or throwing them away just aint worth the time so what can I do with them? might get able to stuff one of the servers at location with 100mbit connection later on...

1) Configure a webserver
2) Put pictures of your hot wife, GF, mom, or sister on said space
3) Post link here
4)??
5) PROFIT!

hm...liked the last one ;)

If you've got a spare w2k server and exchange 2k (now obsolete and maybe you've upgraded a box with "full" versions of the 2003 stuff), you might think about running that. Exchange 2k makes a decent IMAP server, so you can use thunderbird on all your various PCs/laptops/macs/whatever and have access to the same mail store.
I've done this with a box that had a 500mhz K6 and 256M ram and, although it's a bit slow, it works just fine.
Just a thought, of course...

NT4 server & Exchange 5.5 works very well for IMAP & OWA as well, often had for zero cost.

Oh... right - forgot about that one.
Be careful of Exchange 5.5 as setting it up according to the manual leaves you with an open relay (see slipsticksystems for the how-to to shut the door on the evil spammers). I don't think you can completely close the relay on exchange 5 and below.
The one feature Outlook has that I want is the ability to "work offline" in the sense that it makes a synchronized copy of the mail store that you can use when not connected. I wonder if there's a way to get Thunderbird to do this. I could just use Outlook - but it pretty much sucks as an email client (other than the "offline" part, that is).
Lotus Notes had this built in from the start (the notion was that it'd support various levels of connectivity and you could adjust synchronization filters to allow for the size and cost of your current bandwidth). Of course, this was back before we all had decent, and fairly cheap bandwidth (before HTML/HTTP, even - although SGML was around as a universal printer markup language).
Might be nice to out-do m'soft on this one... :) - although I'm pretty sure the one thing keeping corporate types tied to Outlook is the calendar. None of the other office suites seem to do this right...