>A bit off topic, but wasn't the historical reason for sendmail.cf being so
>obtuse the fact that it had to load and parse the file each time it was
>started?  (i.e. brevity helped the init speed of sendmail)  Don't get me
>wrong - I don't mean to defend sendmail...

something like that, i believe, though most of that was offset so by
the freeze files.

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