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 18:50
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : Re: 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 installed about three weeks ago.
>
>>> I've only been moving things into the "ham" folder that were
>>> incorrectly marked as spam.
>>
>> What folder?
>
>Sorry, I forgot to explain that.  I created two folders on our 
>IMAP server.
>One called "Spam" and one called "NotSpam".  Each night I've 
>got a process
>that downloads the messages in those folders and submits them 
>to sa-learn.
>

Ok, but do you think your system should have seen more than 200 non-spam messages already?

>--
>Michael St. Laurent
>Hartwell Corporation
>