Getting hammered by spam virus :-(

I've been bitten so badly by the whole blackhole folly --
having legitimate incoming mail bounced in the middle of
a job search -- that I'm no longer "fighting" spam at all.
I'm just using the Mozilla junk filter to isolate it.
Blackholes are a *bad* idea whose time has come and gone.

technomage wrote:
> I recently signed up with spamcop. seems to be working ok as brand new
> (fresh!) spam was discovered today. hopefully, this will start working soon.
> . . .
> perhaos more of us should sign up. it'll definitely prove helpful.