I have successfully used filtering for myself and only get 1 or 2 spams a day. I'm more upset that it's become less about advertising and more about creating confusion. The fact that people are getting rich by hijacking systems and harvesting E-mail addresses should really piss people off. When they call my business to sell their service to me, I give them a hard time. It's all I can do.
The feds did a good job taking down this International Spam ring.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10...mers_targeted/
Other governments have been willing to work with us on this.