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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm Aliases
Keywords: long aliases routing machines
Message-ID: <1990Sep8.045006.13735@DSI.COM>
Date: 8 Sep 90 04:50:06 GMT
References: <2328@sud509.ed.ray.com> <1990Sep5.233643.5756@DSI.COM> <2355@sud509.ed.ray.com>
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Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com writes:
>I understood the description you sent me of how to use the aliases.
>I'm unclear, though, as to why a "group" alias can't include
>names with remote addresses, instaed of only local addresses.
Because of the search algorithm Elm uses for aliases.  Its a hash
table and the names need to be rather short to avoid many collisions
and long hash table keys (thus keeping memory usage down).  Why
Dave choose that method of indexing, ask him, I don't know.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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