On 14 Feb 1997, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> Sorry for taking so long to respond, but I fell seriously ill and was
> confined to bed for several days.
I hope it was not working on majordomo that caused this! :-)
> How things get stored behind the scenes is another matter; I'm still trying
> to figure out how best to save state. DB-style databases are nice and
> simplify certain kinds of lookup, but it isn't necessarily easy to extract,
> say, all subscribers who want the weekly digest. Plus we want to store a
> quantity of information for each address, which means either a bunch of
How about using DB-style databases, but the additional information would
be stored separated by '|'s
$user{'luser1@luser.com'} = "fullname|digests|var3|var4|varN|";
or is this similar to "MLDBM"? (not familiar with it)
One could have secondary indexes to speed some lookups, but
synchronization and locking between 2+ dbm files becomes a tricky.
cheers,
Carlos M. Gutierrez
carlos@ipr.net
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