You wouldn't be writing a More Agreeable SPAMBot would you? No, that's silly...they don't care about duplicate SPAM messages :)

I have a bad habit of doing this (that is, dodging the question), but for you this is the time to use a relational (SQL) database and force the email address field to be UNIQUE, or else do a "SELECT UNIQUE * FROM" or something like that.

Your flatfile technique is bound to be slower. 1200sec/60(sec/min) = 20 minutes. A database could fly through this sort of thing, and then you would have a system that would be better to write future tools on top of.

Postgre and MySQL are both great free DB servers available for most platforms. I tend to prefer Postgres for historical reasons about MySQL (most reasons no longer valid), both are rapidly imporving.

In reply to Re: End of the Time Out Tireny by flyingmoose
in thread End of the Time Out Tireny by Anonymous Monk

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