Mail Filters - up to rule #9

I'm up to up to rule #9 with no end in sight.
The more rules I set up, the more junk still gets through.
Is there something else I can do?
.... short of passing a new zero tolerance spamming law .....
wading thru this crap several times a day
is eating up just too much time out of my day!
remember the days before spam?
wasn't that nice? I want them back!
btw, i'm on 10.4.5
will upgrading do anything for me?

Hello Dennis.
Don't waste your time adding to and/or modifying rules in Mail which in regards to spam is like a dog chasing his tail.
No single strategy is completely effective when it comes to managing spam. People who are intent on sending spam are ingenious at coming up with ways around any filtration schemes.
See Why was I "spammed" at my .Mac Mail address? which applies to any email account and How HTML Email Messages Relate to Unsolicited Commercial Email ("spam") which applies to any email client such as the Mail.app.
I've added JunkMatcher to the Mail.app which is donation ware.
JunkMatcher works with and in addition to the Junk filtering included with the Mail.app.

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