[spambayes-dev] Re: [Spambayes] How low can you go?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Tim> iirc, there was quite a bit of discussion about aging mechanisms
    Tim> quite a few months ago.  It seemed like most everyone agreed that
    Tim> it was a good idea, but nobody wanted to implement it for database
    Tim> size considerations.  It still seems like a good idea...

Size definitely does matter. <wink> With both bigrams and my set/used
timestamps (datetime objects), the size of the database ballooned.  I think
the set timestamp could be dispensed with and the last used timestamp
converted to something smaller, like a YYYYMMDD string.

Skip