[spambayes-dev] imbalance within ham or spam training sets?

[Toby Dickenson]

On Monday 03 November 2003 17:54, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> We know some problems arise if grossly different numbers of ham or spam
> exist in the training databases.  I wonder if there might be problems
> within datasets if different numbers of particular hams or spams have been
> used in the training.

Dont scare the new users with talk of problems.....

I train using *everything* in my kmail folders. That is 1 part spam, 4 parts 
python mailing lists, 6 parts other lists, 1 part personal email, and 4 parts 
automated log message. No perceptable problems so far.

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Toby Dickenson