I think I saw this as somewhere else but never heard about it being released or 
implemented:

System maintains a per-user "whitelist" of people that are allowed to send email to 
that user

If an incoming mail is not on the "whitelist", it is returned to the sender 
automatically (the user never sees this first attempt) with a request to "confirm" 
they are sending the email.

The sender confirms by replying to this request message and then the original message 
will be delivered.

This has the benefit of:

Automated for the user.  they just start out with an "empty" individual white-list.

Catches most spam - since the "confirm" message will bounce if it is sent to a fake 
sender and that accounts for a lot of the spam

Can be customized - user can reset or manually change their "whitelist" if they want 
to.

works for the naiive user - simple system config can enable or disable the feature 
per-user but the actual user need do nothing (doesn't have to learn anything)

The spam that does slip thru would still be processed by all the usual weighted 
scoring algorithms.
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