Yeah, it would be nice if logchan has an options in services.conf for enable or disable; in which i personally think that 60% of the users are setting their services log chan ON.
However, djGrrr, i know 1 old module by
Trystan which can makes logchan enabled/ON when services get restarted etc. It is similarly to what you are saying about and you have to add
EnableLogChan in services.conf ... its a nice working module and if you would like it ... i can give you the links or mods
[Edited on 16-8-2006 by n00bie]