Hi Ray
I think what you are hearing is frustration with spam in general.
Of course I am. I share that frustration. But I also see a lot of attempts to counter SPAM as misguided ... either based on technical misunderstandings of what is going on (for example, ANY solution that relies on the From: header) or having unpleasant side effects, often, but not always, unintended by the author of the solution (for example, many proposed "solutions" effectively destroy the ability of mailing lists like this one to function, and some implemented ones impose puzzling burdens on people who post to lists).
My concern here is simply to get the technical parts right.
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I am able to filter out most spam with my current filters used in kmail but I have found two slight drawback. I can send spam to trash but I can not send it to delete. The second is one needs wild characters in the spam filters and skip filters. For a skip filter I have in mind filtering out viraga but the spammers use v!raga or v!iriga et.
I use different filtering software but have the same limitations. Honestly, I don't think the first one is a bad thing. My filtering is quite good, but it generates 2 or 3 false positives per week (out of about 4000 messages received per week). So about once a day, I skim the summary of trashed messages, looking only at the From: and Subject entries, to spot (and rescue) the couple of false positives. The second (matching with wildcards) would be a nice improvement, though.
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