[JDEV] mod_filter plugins

[Oliver George]

Thanks, that is my point (more eloquently put), XML is fantastic but
mod_filter will have very static features unless we can have PAM style
modules.  The first thing i though of when i realized mod_filter's
potential was: can i use regular expressions to filter senders... and
i'm sure everyone else has a mod_filter feature they'd like.  With out
some flexible modules we will be forever waiting for mod_filter to be
extended.  The very practical and reasonable opposing case would have to
be that with this flexability you bog down the server with extra
processing and that scripting modules  (mod_python for example) would be
wasteful and hard to limit.

- Slimy

Paul Prince wrote:
> 
> I believe the person was referring to a module interface that could be totally
> abstract.  Since XML can't do *everything*, there would be other modules.  One
> module would be just like you have now, but you would never be limited to just
> xml.
> 
> Max Horn wrote:
> 
> > At 12:22 Uhr +1000 04.08.2000, Oliver George wrote:
> > >Another quick 2 cents... Could a PAM like arrangement of plugins provide
> > >better flexability as an addition/evolution of mod_filter?  It seems
> > >that XML is limiting search/filter type operations.
> >
> > Uhm, XML is not the limiting factor at all, you can do everything with it...
> >
> > But maybe I misunderstand you, are you refering to storage or to filre rules?
> > For storage, a true DB is of course superior in speed and size (at
> > least for sufficently large amounts of data), but for filters XML is
> > no problem at all - it only depends on the DTD you define.
> >
> > Bye,
> >
> > Max
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