Jim,

Thanks for your bug report :) I tend to agree with you.

It looks like the proper place to set this would be in  /etc/skel/.bashrc which 
is part of the bash package.
I'm attaching a patch to set the history to 2500 which seems like it should be 
large enough for the vast majority of users.
I also updated the comment.

** Patch added: "Patch to set a higher defaut Bash history size."
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/41668600/bashrc_more_hist.diff

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Bash $HISTFILESIZE seems far too small by default.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/544542
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