Spam is Horrible Most Days

Spam is getting to be so horrible most days. I guess that is no secret to most netizens, but I can tell you from my experience with my main journal TELECOM Digest http://telecom-digest.org that even with an agressive version of Spam Assassin running all the time and a 'mailbox' devoted to just spam rejections -- usually 150-175 per day -- at least another hundred or so wind up in my main mailbox which I have to sort out by hand each day, in order to glean a dozen or two dozen 'good' messages for actual use.

Personally, I have found 'filtering' (the process by which spam is supposedly eliminated even before it is seen has been a collossal failure. I have given a lot of thought to using various 'challenge' systems but so many Digest readers have bitched and pissed and moaned about how hard it would be for them to have to respond to a challenge when they send me email. I sure wish there was a solution.