[spambayes-dev] Incremental training results

[Skip Montanaro]

    Anthony> One variant that has occurred to me for this would be to make
    Anthony> sure that it always trains the same numbers of ham and
    Anthony> spam. Since for most people nonedge ends up training far more
    Anthony> spam, you pick a couple of random 0.00 hams to train with as
    Anthony> well.

Or bring the training threshold for spam down far enough so you are training
on roughly the same numbers.  You might start your thresholds at 0.01 and
0.99, then have the training regime automatically lower or raise the spam
training threshold to keep the training sets roughly in balance.

Skip