Re: Creating a Structured Directory in Qmail for Users

[Bruce Guenter]

On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 03:24:52AM -0600, Ken Jones wrote:
> Alphabetical distributions are not symetrical. It is better to allocate
> users based on additions.

Or some other scheme which produces nearly evenly distributed results.
A good hash function will do this as well (I use/abuse a 32-bit CRC for
this).
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