It's been about 5 years but finally my .mac (primary) email address is getting spammed like crazy. It's terrible. I pay for this email address because I want a high quality, IMAP email system. I'd be willing to pay even more for a service that could do away with spam.

I think that this all comes back to people putting up with horrible quality in exchange for a free service. If people experienced high quality, spam free email, they would be willing to pay a few bucks for it. Nobody really pushes hard to stop spam today because email is free and crappy and people put up with it. If you had as many telemarketers on the phone selling to you as you get email spam, wouldn't you want a stop to this?

Ads? Who needs them. I'll pay a couple bucks here and there. Argh.