Score to *'s not right?

["Kevin W. Gagel" <ga...@cnc.bc.ca>]

I'm using a filtering rule that checks for a minimum amount
of *'s in the spam-level header. If it finds 6 or more then
the message is redirected to my spam folder for later
review.

I was suprised to see this message did not get redirected as
it scored 6. Yet the spam level has only 5 *'s.

I'm using SpamAssassin 3.01, any comments? Here are the
headers of the message.

Subject: ***SPAM 6.0*** Cheap online medication here 
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:58:28 +0200 
X-Spam-Prev-Subject: Cheap online medication here 
X-Spam-Tests:
BAYES_50=2.3,HTML_50_60=0.087,HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, 
MIME_HTML_ONLY=0.177,RCVD_HELO_IP_MISMATCH=2.178, 
RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.248 
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on
avas.cnc.bc.ca 
X-Spam-See: http://avas.cnc.bc.ca for information about
anti-spam scanning. 
X-Spam-Scored: 6.0 out of a required 5.0 
X-Spam-Summary: 2.2 RCVD_HELO_IP_MISMATCH Received: HELO and
IP do not match, but should 
1.2 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO Received: contains an IP address used
for HELO 
0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 
2.3 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% 
[score: 0.5001] 
0.2 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME
parts 
0.1 HTML_50_60 BODY: Message is 50% to 60% HTML 
X-Spam-Autolearn: Autolearned as no 
X-Spam-Scan-Date: Scanned on Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:00:29 -0800
X-Spam-DCCD-Results: CollegeOfNewCaledonia, avas 1189;
Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 
X-Spam-Level: ***** 
X-Spam-RBL-Results: 
Return-Path: <rz...@chinaren.com> 
X-Rcpt-To: <XX...@XXXXXXX> 
X-DPOP: Version number supressed 
Y-UIDL: 1102696774.4892 


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Kevin W. Gagel
Network Administrator
Information Technology Services
(250) 561-5848 local 448


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RE: Score to *'s not right?

[Bret Miller <br...@wcg.org>]

> I'm using a filtering rule that checks for a minimum amount
> of *'s in the spam-level header. If it finds 6 or more then
> the message is redirected to my spam folder for later
> review.
> 
> I was suprised to see this message did not get redirected as
> it scored 6. Yet the spam level has only 5 *'s.

Actually, I'd think this is probably in the FAQ by now. SA rounds the
score, so if it gets a 5.999, the score is rounded to 6.0, but the stars
field is set to the truncated whole number, or 5 *'s.

Bret