Re: Effect of widely differing volumes on ifile classification

Jason Rennie <[email protected]> Mon, 07 Apr 2003 10:26:04 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.ifile.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

[email protected] said:
> Is there any way that ifile could _directly_ age data in its database
> to counter this? 

Possibly.  We could limit the database to (e.g.) 5,000 word occurrences
per folder.  When a new message exceeds the limit, we scale the
(aggregate) word counts down and round.  It'd be similar to decaying the
old word counts with each new message.  I haven't tried this, though.

Jason