Recently, Meredith and I have been getting more and more spam. Last week, I ran across an amazing solution -- well, for me, at any rate. It works only with Outlook right now, but if that's what you use, go get Spamnet. The way it works is: when you get a message that is spam, you click a button on your Outlook tool bar to block it. That action reports the spam to a central list. When other users get that same message, the server sees that it's already been marked as spam, so it gets filtered away.
So far, I've had it block all the spam I've received, with just one false positive (oddly, updates messages from our hosting provider).
Now if only I could find a way to block Meredith's spam...
Mike,
I got a free, downloadable program called MailWasher that does an excellent job. It works slightly differently, but you can blacklist/bounce/delete spam in one easy click. Go to http://www.mailwasher.net to check it out; I heard about it from my Dad and now use it for my Hotmail and school accounts.