Jason Frisvold wrote:
1) How effective is it really? Will users likely notice a huge change if bayes was disabled?
We use a site wide bayes DB, and it's very effective for us. As an example, last week our bayes DB got corrupted and we lost that aspect of scoring for about 3 hours. Our help desk got over 25 calls about higher levels of spam during that time, so yes, they notice.
3) Any thoughts on speeding up the database calls? Is faster hard drives/clustering my only option?
How many calls/lookups are you seeing now? We run our DB on a moderatly fast Dell with fast disk with lots of ram and it handles ~300 queries/second very well.
Shout if you have any other questions.. Dan
