Here is something that is perhaps obvious, but still worth mentioning:all anti-spam work is in a sense pure overhead, in that it is time andresources spent fixing a situation to return it to the way it was beforethe spammers showed up. Anti-spam work does not actually improve emailin a broad sense, it just makes it as not-bad as possible.

(It is possible that anti-spam work will lead to techniques thatimprove email overall, perhaps better ways of automatically sorting and

There reaches a certain point in the life of many projects, especiallyopen source projects, when your bug reporting system just doesn't workany more. By 'doesn't work' I don't mean that your systems fall overand the software stops working; I mean that the system stops doing anygood and instead becomes the place where bug reports go to die. (Actualimportant bugs get reported and often tracked by different channels.)

So how can you tell if you've reached this point