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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> People like editing flat text files better than editing elisp
> expressions.  Since the format of the .netrc files is presumably known
> to many people, storing this info in a file that uses exactly the same
> syntax makes sense.

If the value is in a Lisp variable, they can change it with customize,
and get online help.  That should be easier for most people than
learning the ".netrc" format from a man page (I for one don't know the
".netrc" format).