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It appears as if the whole world is conspiring to make me feel smart. And the crazy thing is, this doesn't seem like a good thing to me. I'd actually prefer if someone, you know, in a position of power was playing the role of having a clue.
I've noticed that I get the same spam emails to many of my multiple addresses. This gave me an idea for filtering spam. Set up an email address for yourself that you never give to any person you want email from. But you make it widely available on the web. This account should get all spam. Now have your regular accounts check every incoming message against the messages in your spam account, and throw out any matches.
This doesn't really solve the bandwidth wasting problem of spam (it actually makes it a little worse,) but it would be pretty good against the time wasting problem.