Why is Bash's HISTIGNORE not working with tramp's commands?

[Skip Montanaro]

I set HISTIGNORE as

  HISTIGNORE='*tramp_exit_status*:*tramp_file_attributes*'

and export it in my ~/.bash_profile file but I still get lots of tramp turds
flooding out all the useful interactive commands in my history list, e.g.
lines like

    ls -d /www/mojam/prod/isyndicate/genres/dhandler;echo tramp_exit_status $? 
    tramp_file_attributes /www/mojam/prod/isyndicate/genres/dhandler 

Is anyone else using HISTIGNORE to squelch tramp's chit chat?  If so, what
are you using?  Where are you setting HISTIGNORE?  I don't suppose tramp
could be coaxed into doing this automagically could it?

Thx,

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