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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Why does Configure limit #of aliases
Keywords: ELM, aliases, Configure
Message-ID: <1990Feb24.152425.1235@DSI.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 90 15:24:25 GMT
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Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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ryan@aladdin.uucp (Ryan Waldron) writes:
:When Configure asks how many aliases to include, why does try to limit this
:number to the 50-1000 range?  Is there any reason (other than speed) that a
:number higher than this should not work?  There are some users at my site
:who have an aliases.text that will require significantly more than 1000
:available aliases to handle properly.  Any caveats?
Yes,  Elm keeps the entire alias index table in memory.  If the table is
large, it takes a lot of ram.  Plus it must be searched each time.

Remember everyone has the same size alias table, its not dynamic.
(Maybe it should be, but no one has decided to deal with that problem).

Also remember that Elm, and many of its tools share the alias table,
they would all need to  be changed.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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