Still not sure I understand proper use of Bayes

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Michael St. Laurent [mailto:mikes at HARTWELLCORP.COM]
>Envoyé : 4 mars, 2004 18:24
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Still not sure I understand proper use of Bayes
>
>
>Okay, the Bayes engine here is still not doing anything 
>because even though
>I've got 230 spam messages for it to process, it complains 
>that it has less
>than 200 *ham* messages.

This means that it hasn't seen 200 non-spam messages yet.  It your installation recent?

>
>I've only been moving things into the "ham" folder that were 
>incorrectly
>marked as spam.


What folder?


  Is there something I'm not understanding 
>about how this is
>supposed to work?
>
>--
>Michael St. Laurent
>Hartwell Corporation
>