Remaining host configuration fragments

[Stan Shebs]

DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > would be simpler (no need to worry about nesting of comments).
> 
> If the idea is to keep users from using the file, why do we need to
> worry about nesting of comments?  Just throw a chunk of uncommented
> English text at the top of the file and let it fail.

Greps and such won't report that a reference is in a doomed file,
and the commenting protects from browsers like S**rc* N*v*g*t*r.

I also don't put complete faith in CVS, because unless one tags
before removal of a set of related changes, you'll never find
them all again, and historically people have not tagged before
evaporating things.  Releases get archived in many places,
including durable media.

(Lest you think this is going overboard, consider that Google
just went to a bunch of trouble to recover old Usenet postings,
and that much GNU development history is trapped in Cygnus's old
CVS repository that is contaminated with lots of proprietary stuff
and can never be opened to the public.)

Stan