Hello Alexander N. Skovpen!
I use the Husky config, and I have a <name> area.
It seems that gossiped does not ignore comments starting with #
fido@vserv:/usr/local/etc/fido$ fgrep "<name>" *
areas:# *Area <name> <file> [Options]
areas:# EchoArea <name> <file> [Options] [linkAKAs] [linkOptions]
CU, Ricsi
--- gossipEd-linux/amd64 2.0.7-b274c49a
* Origin:
https://github.com/askovpen/gossiped/ (2:310/31)