"Theo van Daele" wrote in message
...

I have often considered this but feared all of the work needed to
get all of my friends set up with rules

FWIW, a program like MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net) is quite
useful
(and free unless you want to make a donation to the writer). It
autodetects spam based on ORDB, Spamcop etc... databases, and you can set
up
nice rules, friends lists, blacklists.
snip

I have been using cloudmark's SPAMnet on my main PC for awhile now. It works
incredibly.

BV.