[Spambayes] Is Equal Ham & Spam really the best?

[Mark Hammond]

> That is high relative to the conventional wisdom, but I'm questioning
> the correctness of that wisdom.

Check out this thread, which should give you a reasonable idea:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/spambayes-dev/2003-November/001578.html

> Perhaps its time to re-evaluate that statement?

Google also shows anecdotal reports of poor results after an imbalance as
low as 2:1, so I don't think it would be responsible to re-evaluate that
statement until clear evidence was presented to the contrary.

Cheers,

Mark