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[Matt Kettler]

Yes, dashes are explicitly prohibited from being in rule names in SA.

If you read the perldoc for Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf  in version 2.50
you'll find these bits on rule-naming:

--
            Test names should not start with a number, and must
            contain only alphanumerics and underscores.  It is
            suggested that lower-case characters not be used, as
            an informal convention.  Dashes are not allowed.

            Note that test names which begin with '__' are
            reserved for meta-match sub-rules, and are not scored
            or listed in the 'tests hit' reports.  Test names
            which begin with 'T_' are reserved for tests which are
            undergoing QA, and these are given a very low score.
---

Version 2.43 mentions the '__' bit but not the part about allowed characters.

At 03:05 PM 3/18/2003 -0300, Mariano Absatz wrote:
>I don't know much of the inner workings of SA, but I'd bet it uses the rule
>numbers as Perl identifiers (or part of Perl identifiers) at one time or
>another (e.g. as an index to a hash). Then a "-" would be an invalid
>character in a Perl identifier and that would prevent it from working,
>whereas "_" is a valid character.