> Why would human created clear text non-tokenized white list entries grow 
> big?
>
Maybe my wording was/is not correct. I don't mean that a human created list 
would grow big. I mean that human readable (clear text) white list entries use 
more space then a hashed white list entry (tokenized).


> Or, are you saying that human created clear text white list 
> entries would be tokenized entries?
>
No. They could but the problem is that tokenized entries can not easy be 
converted back to a human readable format.


> In that case I don't see why the 
> entries would need to be tokenized. 
> 
Less space usage, smaller indizes, faster processing, etc...


> In any case how big is big?
>
Depends on the number of entries. For example having 1'000 white list entries 
in tokenized form could use 1'000 time the size of an integer or long. Having 
the same 1'000 white list entries in clear text would use more storage and 
memory space.

 
> I"m not familar with CSS. 
> 
It's well documented in CRM114. But that's not the issue. The main issue I see 
is that we as the DSPAM community can not just ignore the fact that we have 
more then one storage engine used in DSPAM. Adding a new and vital function to 
just a bunch of the engines is not very consistent. I know that we do already 
have such stuff (for example the preference extension) but if we can avoid 
splitting functionality, then we should aim for that goal (that's my own 
personal opinion).


> Perhaps for whitelisting there could be a choice (a dspam.conf option?) 
> to enable/seek per user whitelist information from file or DB.  Then 
> document both in the dspam.conf and docs that only file can be used for 
> whitelist managment if CSS is the backend DB in use.
> 
This sounds like a plan :)


// Steve

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