What is the purpose of the 'www' group? Is it just vestigial association with 
the www user?

Most of /var/www is owned by root:daemon 0755 by default.

Assuming you want to give users write access to various folders under and 
including /var/www/htdocs what is the best way to do this considering the 
limitations of the antiquated UNIX UID/GID scheme? Create group-writable 
subfolders that are world executable so httpd can traverse and serve files from 
it? Is there any reason /var/www/htdocs needs to be readable by the daemon 
group?

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