> Any ideas what threshold/timeframe would be appropriate?

I think after parsing saints in our books you can just chart the "last time here" and visually come to one or various natural thresholds.

Edit

If I were you I'd put the whole table into an extra module which is imported by chatterbot and updated once per week.

The threshold for greetings depends on frequency, at some point people might get annoyed by too many of them.

I'd start with 6 or 12 month and would adjust those settings later.

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re^6: Chatterbot update by LanX
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