> This requires the remote uucp site to give you a Bloom > filter with all the valid addresses inserted, but that seems > unavoidable. I don't know how the opposite-of-Bloom-filter > approach would work anyway.
One problem with this is handling wildcarded addresses. How do you indicate (say) lyndon+* is allowable in a bloom filter, where the '+' is an arbitrary (to the upstream) symbol. One idea I've been looking at is exporting a representation of a trie that can be interpreted by the upstream. --lyndon