If you change your email address, the amount of spam you receivewill drop dramatically. However, this effect is usually onlytemporary. Once you begin to use your new address on a regularbasis, the spammers slowly begin to catch up. It's similar tochanging your phone number - the more you give it out and thelonger you have it, the more calls you get. The situation is not hopeless, however. Most ISPs provide sometype of spam filtering tool. These tools seem to improveregularly in an attempt to keep up with the increasingcraftiness of spammers. You can search your ISPs Email Help forinformation on turning on your spam filter.Even free email services tend to provide some sort ofspam-fighting technology. For example, the email account I havehad the longest receives the most amount of spam. However, it ishosted on Yahoo and their SpamGuard technology does a prettygood job of filtering unwanted emails into a Bulk folder. I canchose to browse through these messages if I want or...
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