Maybe instead of cooking up their owns spam filtering, they should follow the model of comcast and and leave the task of spam filtering to the experts.
Since the introduction of Brightmail spam filtering it has been absolutely fantastic. Zero false positive and very few false negatives.
reply to SYNACK Verizon did use Brightmail at one time. My own experience with Verizon's spam filter is that it takes longer to get an email from a Comcast customer in Pottstown, PA than it takes to drive there (4 hours VS. 45 minutes. No kidding)