Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Unfortunately it will never end until the whole world scraps the current email system and replaces it with (drumroll....) email II.
Email 2 will have no free unauthenticated sending, every address is registered (unfortunately privacy would be gone), ISPs block and filter all traffic to ensure the sender matches the customer.
Until then the ol learning filter is our best friend and may all spammers burn in hell for spoiling a nice 'free' system.
It would also help if people stopped using hi-jackable zombie-capable systems like 98/2K & improperly unsecured XP. The world must eeither secure XP properly or go with Vista (so far so good), Linux or OSX. Otherwise we are likely to see email as we know it become clogged with digital beaurocracy!