sad truth is that if someone could catch all of it, there would be no more spam...

the money is big and these guys are smart. spam schemes targetting known spam servers are no good against spam botnets, text scanning is no good against image spam (which is mostly what i see these days) and the spam software has a really hard time against as you put it, word salad (good one )

when you think that between 70 and 80% of email is spam, if you can filter out even part of that...you're probably doing well. For me Thunderbird gets close to 95% of spam (average of 150 a day) after 2 years of training it... the few i do see are easy to deal with...and probably simply a fact of eLife