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sysctl.9: put negative sense sysctl note in own paragraph

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The sysctl man page cautions against negative-sense boolean sysctls
(foobar_disable), but it gets lost at the end of a large paragraph.
Move it to a separate paragraph in an attempt to make it more clear.

This man page could use a more holistic review and edit pass.  This
change is simple and straightforward and I hope provides a small but
immediate benefit.
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@ -1024,6 +1024,7 @@ underscore characters, as in
Underscore characters may be omitted only if the name consists of not more
than two words, each being not longer than four characters, as in
.Va bootfile .
.Pp
For boolean sysctls, negative logic should be totally avoided.
That is, do not use names like
.Va no_foobar