@bgr : Amazing! There is always a positive side to everything and am glad you are looking at the brightest side of it. Keep it up!

Developers of spamfilters are heroes, not just fighting the technologic battle under constant attack of bandwith desire, but also desinfecting the net from stupid and ugly ideas. When you think about the most content of spam = porn, gambling , drugs/ viagras /whatever overdose, false degree certificates, pirate software, stupid replicas.. .which is all just hunt for luxury and pleasures… i wish only spammers think anything of that can make life good and happy, and wish for them to realize soon that its not about that.

Next idea coming to my mind is : regardless of how smart and well-set my mail-app spam filter is, I still have to make a brief look at content of my spambox folders. And it often means I do it many times through day, just to check if some non-spam message eventually didnt lost ist way to me. And it happens occasionaly.

And the last but not least topic: I recently got the best spam in my life!
Actually it was spam delivered by classic (non-electronic) post mail- and it was the original english Spam can of chopped pork and ham (Monty Python´s Flying Circus idea) I think this can is going to be icocinc just like Campbell´s soup is thanks to A. Warhol!

You do have a strong point. Another angle to look at it is how the spam challenge the developers.

I think the Google algorithm (and other algorithms) would not be this developed today, if they were not spammed heavily.