Re: spamprobe-1.1x7 released

> The hash format itself couldn't be any more trivial.  It's just an array 
> of 12 byte records with no fancy data structures.  Worst case I could 
> think of is if the system crashed in such a way that only part of a 
> record was written to disk. 

Do you have room for a tombstone on each end?  Even one byte would do it,
just increment the previous byte cyclically.  If the head stone isn't
the same as the foot stone, it's an empty slot.

>  At worst that would make one term invalid 
> so I don't think it'd be a disaster.

What about collisions, do you chain hashes?  Would one corrupt
entry being wiped out take an overflow bucket with it?

G


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