To have to explain why abuse is bad is akin to why a warning stating 'Jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge can be fatal' being required on the Golden Gate Bridge so hey, let's get started.
First off the way email is handled is through an email file. This file is linear in that it is a single contiguous file that requires the end user to process the data from start to finish. In other words you don't get to pick and choose what is process or where you start processing the data from. You start at the beginning and work your way to the end so you are forced to deal with the spam whether you filter it automatically or download and read it.
If the paragraph above is not enough simply do the math. At last count there were twenty-five million small businesses in the Untitled States. If on a small fraction decided to send you spam your inbox would be useless. Now if you add into this the number of individuals that think their recipes for chocolate chip cookies is worth selling, the scammers, the politicians [same thing pretty much] and finally the charities what is your inbox worth now?
Will filters stop spam?
From what I have seen I have to say no. In my personal experience attempting to start a business online from January 2007 to January 2008 after filtering I have received over eighteen-thousand spam. This equates to 49 spam each and every day. This is not Monday through Friday, this is every day so if I take a weekend off from checking my email I would return to approximately 100 spam Monday morning. This does not include legitimate email which might be rejected because I have to filter incoming email so in a week I see 350 spam and in February 2007 I was receiving 60 a day from a single source.
spam is bad and the senders care only about their lack of expense and not your increased expense and aggravation so why should you care about their bottom line?
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