timonecomcastnet tim peters guido dont know big pickle would maybe loading time fine maybe marshalling tests train 7000 msgs binary pickle database approaching 10 million bytes havent done anything try reduce size know specific problem areas example character 5grams long words containing highbit characters generates lot database entries suspect theyre approximately worthless otoh adding headers increase size lets call 10 meg fri 06 sep 2002 152122 0400 spambayes deployment