When I joined email I thought my days of spam were over. Unfortunately the
honeymoon has ended and I now get numerous spam messages.  Trying to filter
these out is useless because the bastards who send spam constantly change
their identity.

Is it not possible to instruct gmail to delete any message that contains in
its heading or body words such as penis and Viagra regardless of the
identity of the sender.  If not, why not as this seems such a simple
request?

Don't try to create a filter, as you've stated it's nearly impossible.  Use
GMail's built in, adaptive spam filter.  When you encounter a message that's
not marked as spam, but is, you need to click the "report spam" button.
 This moves it to spam, and helps the adaptive filter learn new ways to
detect spam.  It will get better over time.

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    It is possible, and actually fairly simple to do. Although, as Zack
points out, it is not as effective as using the adaptive spam filters that
come built-in to Gmail. If you are dead-set on what you ask, you just need
to click on the small "Create a filter" link at the top of the screen, the
one just under the "Show search options" link. The filter creation screens
are fairly self-explanatory. However - if you do create such a link, those
deleted messages will never be examined by the adaptive spam filters, and
the more spam they get to study, the better they get at identifying spam in
the future. So creating such a filter will not only be less effective than
using the spam function, but it will also somewhat lessen the effectiveness
of the spam function itself...

-0 1 - just my two bits

Your message was flagged as spam by gmail, I guess your keyword did the
trick [?]

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