SA 304/spamc milter question

[Dr Robert Young]

We want to do some testing of our email system with, and without, SA  
intercepting the mails. Currently, we have SA 304 installed and  
running with sendmail, using the milter-spamc "hook".

I just want to verify that if one manually "shuts down" the spamd  
daemon, that the emails would be eventually "passed" along as  
"unchecked" email after any appropriate "timeouts" are encountered ?

I basically want to avoid having to recompile sendmail to remove the  
"milter" lines currently in the system.