Unfortunately anything you do to increase the likelyhood of detecting spam is also going to increase the likelyhood of accidently detecting real-mail as spam. (the old false-negative vs false-positive tradeoff).
I try to get around this by using two major addresses and keeping one as spam-free as I can, and going for the no-sparrow-may-fall policy on the other (unfortunately, since mail to this one goes through the system lnr refers to I can't receive mail from hotmail there, but I would regard this as more of a problem if hotmail appeared to be capable of delivering me mail anywhere). This does have the nasty side-effect that I'm left eyeballing about 200 spam a day in case there are any real-mail hidden in my spam "sinbin" on that system.
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Date: 2006-11-23 10:09 am (UTC)I try to get around this by using two major addresses and keeping one as spam-free as I can, and going for the no-sparrow-may-fall policy on the other (unfortunately, since mail to this one goes through the system