Spam Spam Spam....
I personally have been getting a lot more spam recently, and it's beginning to get annoying. Especially as it's coming into my "official" e-mail address which I only give to people like prospective employers.
The people I know in 'real life' have a different one, and that's divided from the computer savvy to the computer illiterate. The people I correspond with over the Internet use yet another.
My mail client is packed full of filters to try and weed out some of it, and it works pretty well, but alas I don't have the time to sit about creating new rules all the time. I would like to see regular expressions or some sort of equally flexible string comparison feature integrated into mail clients, or even a 3rd party filter (probably is one, I just haven't looked).
There has been continuing discussion about Spam in the media and in both the British and European governments. It seems that everybody is against it, so much that it will probably be illegal in Europe soonish. Although the source of the problem has been identified as America (what a surprise), and they won't make it illegal.
Governments can seem to come to agreements over who to kill, and which countries to wipe out, but they are failing in stopping something as trivial as junk mail. If the Americans can be bent into a spam free world then all that would be required is a quick and simple legal system to tackle it. You can't take somebody to court for junk mail, it's pointless, and a waste of time (again, this is probably a more sane reason for suing somebody in the states).
I have been getting more mail recently that goes out of it's way to get round blocks. E.g. changing i to í, and putting keywords in as GIF's and JPEG's to stop them from being picked up.
It's no longer a legitimate marketing system, it's a joke. A game, who can filter my mail? Not you, haha, etc etc...
*fume*