Re: Filtering

["Thomas R. Shannon" <tshanno orion it luc edu>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Jules Bean wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> [snip...]
> > > having to "shell out" costs more in resources than it would having it's
> > own
> > > filtering capabilities. 
> > 
> > Absolute rubbish.
> 
> explain? the way I see it, and correct me if I'm wrong, loading another
> program *does* take more resources

procmail starts upon boot on all Linux systems whether you use it or
not.  You can't waste resources that are already in use.

Tom
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