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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Besides, you can burn yourself with this feature when you make a
> change to the /etc/xxx file and forget to disable writing to it...

I think the idea would be that you'd be discouraged from writing
changes there.  There is precedent - you're technically not supposed
to modify your sendmail.cf, for example, but rather build it from
source using the convenient feature macros.

					Jordan