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

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

cav wrote:
> 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?

Not proved here, but try changing References: to Message-ID:

e.g.:

[*]
Score: =-9999
Message-ID:  news\.usenetmonster\.com

I'm assuming PAN uses the scoring syntax of slrn...

Rinaldi
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