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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Why are there limits? (was Re: My filter is busted...)
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.213408.356@DSI.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 91 21:34:08 GMT
References: <1991Mar16.184833.15721@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <1991Mar16.220652.8522@DSI.COM> <1991Mar17.202327.4321@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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jbn35564@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson) writes:
>Why is there a limit on this [filter rules] and on such things as
>the number of messages that ELM will handle?
Because that is the way Dave Taylor wrote the program.  We did not
choose the base structure for Elm and we do not have the time at present
to totally re-write it.

>I don't see why ELM would have limits on the number of messages able
>to be processed.
As far as I know, the only limit on the size of a folder is the amount
of memory to hold the headers.  I have handled many folders with thousands
of messages.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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