Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aries.scs.uiuc.edu!sandrock From: sandrock@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Mark T. Sandrock) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Aliases File Message-ID: Date: 31 Oct 90 18:29:36 GMT References: <1990Oct30.190327.26105@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1663@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 18 chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) writes: >For 251 user aliases, that means you need 251*52=13052 bytes, even if you >have just a single alias. I just installed Elm 2.3 PL8 here under Mips RISC/os, and chose the value of 251 for the max number of aliases without realizing the consequences, i.e., the large hash file. Not that it's a major deal, but it might be of some help to have an idea why 251 was made the default. I use only a few aliases myself, and I wonder how this value of 251 was derived? Mark Sandrock -- BITNET: sandrock@uiucscs Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Internet: sandrock@aries.scs.uiuc.edu Chemical Sciences Computing Services Voice: 217-244-0561 505 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801