Spam scores don't add up

[Christopher Hicks]

On Sat, 17 May 2003, Gerry Doris wrote:
> I was just checking the spam scores of a message and noticed that they
> aren't adding up correctly.  If you check the header shown below it
> comes out to a total of 5.76 but the actual score is 8.2.  Any idea why???
>
> snip....
> X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam, SpamAssassin (score=8.2, required 4, AWL 0.00,
>         BAYES_80 2.86, MIME_BOUND_MANY_HEX 2.90, UPPERCASE_75_100 0.00)
>
>                         EL-GORDO SWEEPSTAKE INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY NL.
>             BURDENSTRAAT 22 1053 DS, AMSTERDAM.THE            NETHERLANDS
> snip....

It's not your SA srore, but somebody elses' who uses different values?

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