> > Nick May writes:
> > (quite what regexing the contents of every email that goes through
> > their servers would do to capacity makes me shudder to think...)
>
> Oh, I don't know. Remember that they already have to unwrap MIME
> messages and convert message bodies into Shift-JIS if they use some
> other character encoding. Adding a few filters to the process
> shouldn't make a huge difference.
Indeed. Converting every character means looking at every character.
Regular expression matching doesn't even have to do that (e.g. using
Boyer-Moore algorithm.)
I'll stop being pedantic now.
Michael Turner
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Received on Fri Jun 15 07:00:20 2001