I hate spam, I hate spam, I hate spam!

I'm sure everybody does, but I didn't realize how much of it I am actually being sent, until now. I've been away from the computer during the weekend, and the levels of spam I just found reach the 60% order! that is without considering the messages from mailing lists.

Believe me, I'm not looking to increase the size of any part of my anatomy, nor I'm interested in becoming a millionaire overnight. Not to talk about the we-want-you-to-keep-this-millions-because-we-trust-you and 'Lotery Winning' scams, that appear to be increasing and diversifying its sources... I just read one of them written in german.

The point is that I just spent 2 hours cleaning my inbox, two hours I could have spent getting some work done. What do we need to get rid of unwanted email? Technical solutions abound, and yet again, none of them is 100% accurate. Everytime a new product hits the market, it won't take more than 2 weeks until spammer find a way around it. Besides, sometimes people end up wasting more time looking for legitimate messages in the spam folder...

If it is true that spam is being generated by about 200 people, why is it so damn hard to find and put them away?!