siljaline <siljaline@null.com> wrote in
news:2ht2svg7mjfpfddg7vd32uiqb11p4k6hdi@4ax.com:

> HOSTESS "prunes" the comments out, thus corrupting *this* particular
> HOSTS file.

But that doesn't change the functionality of that hosts file, does it? The
blocklist still works just the same, because it's the entry before the
comments that really matters.