(FYI, I took a month hiatus from blogging but I’m back).
I *hate* email spam – possibly with more passion than the typical email user. I rant about it all the time. And for good reason. Spam is out of control. Danny Goodman posts his spam filtering results at http://spamwars.com/stats.html. About 95% of his email is unwanted. O’Reilly Media is about the same. There are some insights on spam over at O’Reilly Radar. My email is currently handled by 1&1 but their spam filtering sucks. I’ll be switching as soon as I can settle on something new. Previously I was using SpamSoap and it was fantastic but $25 / month for 3 people is too much for just spam filtering. There are some technical solutions using digital signatures and / or encryption that can help cut down on the problem but nothing is getting wide adoption. We won’t be using SMTP broadly in 5 years. The spammers have us overrun.
Sshh, dear, don’t cause a fuss. I’ll have your spam. I love it. I’m having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam and spam!
http://home.triad.rr.com/spamchef/spamskit.html