i have had my several emails accounts, for going on 10 years now. i average 1 or 2 spam mails a week.. when it starts coming they come in groups of several..i have no spam filters other than the fact that i dont always give it out just because they ask for it...i never post in public news groups.like yahoo or google groups(Here at cat of the dayits ok) and i have a throw away account i can change a little bit which i have done for years.. prior to that i was getting 300-500 spam everyday most of it ugly. so i changed the email and that got rid of it back in 2002.. it just been cautious ever since.. pat