I like to think that I am as on top of the spam situation as anyone else with a decent understanding of the technologies and strategies of both the spammer and the available solutions. I see relatively little real spam these days, thanks to decent server and client side filtering services doing their respective jobs respectfully well. These fully trained and tailored systems are efficient enough to ensure that false positives are all but extinct. Not that this stops me having to check my junk folders far more often than I’d like, simply to satisfy my paranoia that the statistical 1 in 1000 genuine emails to get classified wrongly will be sitting there costing me money in lost business.
And there lies the rub: spam still annoys the hell out of me even if it has all but vanished from my sight.