[Pan-users] scoring on "References:" field doesn't appear to work

[cav]

I'm trying to filter out some spam in some newsgroups.  The From and Subject
lines are totally useless to use for filtering, because as everyone knows,
every single spam on usenet has random subject lines and from fields nowdays. 
When using the menu to create a score, it shows the References field as
something to use.  This would be good, becasue the references field is
generally something along the lines of
<address@hidden> which as you can see,
contains the actual server name used to post the message.  A given spammer
generally uses the same news server to post their crap from, so this would be a
good way to filter them.  However, I can't seem to manage to get scores to work
on the references field.  When I create a score, (which ends up in the score
file as         References: news\.usenetmonster\.com ) It never seems to match 
any of
the articles I want to filter out.  Is there some special trick I need to use
to get it to work?  Has anybody managed to get scoring to work on references?

cav

ps, I'm running 14.2.91, but it didn't work with 14.2 either



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