Why aren the config file and the ban file just one file?
This was mainly done for two reasons. The first is that the ban file is written out everytime a change is made. Given this, it seemed impractical to constantly rewrite other values which for the most part are static. You would also lose any comments that existed in the config file. The second reason is that down the road QSmack may support the sharing of a ban file. Consider our site. At C9, we run several servers on different ports. Potentially, we would want to maintain just one ban file so that a player banned on one port would be banned on them all. This would be impossible is the ban information was kept in the config file.
