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

[Brendon Whateley]

Hi all,

I've just started using spambayes again after a while away from it. 
Now, 3 days in, I notice that I've trained on far more spam than ham. 
(Total emails trained: Spam: *432* Ham: *64)  I seem to remember that
this was previously my experience in the past.

My question is; has anybody really tested the assertion that leads to
the message: "**Warning: you have much more spam than ham - SpamBayes
works best with approximately even numbers of ham and spam."?*
*
For the record, my statistics so far are:
*SpamBayes has processed 5411 messages - 1279 (24%) good, 3189 (59%)
spam and 943 (17%) unsure.

Thanks,
Brendon.