Will high whitelist row count adversely affect performance?

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 19:30:04 IST 2006


On 22/09/06, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> Glenn Steen spake the following on 9/21/2006 5:43 PM:
> > On 22/09/06, Dennis Willson <taz at taz-mania.com> wrote:
> >> Actually if you do "default" whitelisting you can certainly create
> >> holes. I mostly do (there are only a few exceptions) IP whitelists and
> >> Specific from and to whitelists. Meaning the whitelist must have a
> >> specific fully qualified to address to accompany the from address or
> >> domain. That way only one user can get slamed by their request.
> >> External peoples (not my users) cannot request (actually gets ignored)
> >> any whitelisting.
> >>
> >> By using mailwatch and allowing the users to manage their own
> >> whitelists, it (mailwatch) forces the To: address to be theis and they
> >> can't change that. So a single user and mess themselves up, but not
> >> others.
> >>
> > Letting the users have enough rope, eh? I suppose that is a viable
> > compromise:-). At least for you ISP types... Me, I'm more for
> > ...dictatorship... when it comes to this (at least as long as it is
> > _me_ dictating:-).
> >
> That is the thing about a dictatorship ..
>  The dictator is usually the only one happy all the time.
>
Yes. I do apologise for that joke. Not that funny, come to think on it.

Cheers
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