[Mimedefang] FOLLOWUP Q - Using a db for subject lines to blo ck

Cormack, Ken Ken.Cormack at roadway.com
Wed Jun 22 14:53:48 EDT 2005


> You are now converting an O(1) or possibly O(log N) database lookup
> into an O(N) or possibly O(N log N) scan through the database (N is
> the number of keys in the database table.)

Yes, it did sound like it could grow unwieldy.  I just didn't know if there
might be some esoteric substring-match function that might have a practical
use here.  :/  LOL

Thanks for the feedback, David.  :)

Ken



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