> We can grit our teeth and make that statement now, when spam is > (handwave, guess, maybe) 30% of our incoming mail load. > > It's going to become a lot harder to make as that percentage > approaches 99. Which it will, and probably sooner than any of us want > to think about. FWIW, my mother got a new email account a two weeks ago, which I just got around to setting her machine up to log into this afternoon. There were 817 pieces of mail in her inbox, of which seven weren't spam. That comes to 99.14%. I'm sure that'll go down a bit as she begins to use the account more, but I doubt it'll go down much. For it to go down to 30%, she'd need to receive 953 pieces of valid email each week, and I'd guess the actual number, from looking at her prior email account, is closer to 15. Which would still put us at nearly 97% spam. -Bill