Question: What kind of filter do you use in your Java pot? Answer: A Bloom filter. Lucrative is in SourceForge, awaiting use by anyone clever enough to seize it. In the meantime, I am putting a lot of effort into finding permanent employment, so updates are coming quite slowly. Anyone who wants quicker action on Lucrative--the source is out there. Lucratively, Patrick The Lucrative Project: http://lucrative.thirdhost.com ...................................................... To subscribe or unsubscribe from this discussion list, write to lucrative-l-request@lucrative.thirdhost.com with just the word "unsubscribe" in the message body (or, of course, "subscribe") --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'