Originally Posted by
tjspiel
I really don't want to clean and dry my chain every time I ride the bike in those conditions.
It can be done in 2-3 minutes so what's the big deal. Even a 30 second cleaning every other day will be good enough to do the job. The main thing is to get the salt and mud off of it. Once the chain starts rusting it rusts the cassette and the chainring also. If you have a place to do it you can clean the chain off faster than you can take off your clothes. But since you seem to have a short commute there is a better solution for you:
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000049.php