How To Stop Spam - I now receive just 1% of the spam I used to get!

Don't you hate spam? I used to receive over 1000 spam emails a day and it used to drive me crazy. I would wake up in the morning to find 600 in my inbox waiting for me - now there are just 6.

The best part is that stopping all of that spam costs nothing - it is absolutely free!

How do I stop all the spam from reaching me? I use Gmail, Google's free email service, which has excellent built-in spam filtering and I add my own filters to block even more.

All of my email accounts actually forward to my Gmail account which filters the email. So, I really only have one email account as all of the rest simply forward email to it. I use Gmail as webmail so it is accessible from any computer but I also have my email client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.) download copies of the email just as you would with a normal email account.

When doing this, all of the spam is left behind and only the good email ends up on my computer. As an extra bonus, the end result is my email is backed up in two places - on the web in the Gmail account and on my computer in my email program - and I see next to no spam.

Email sent through Gmail on the web is also downloaded on to your own computer when you check with your email program so you have duplicated copies of sent email as well.

With Gmail I get no spam, email accessible from any computer, backup copies of all my incoming and outgoing email, and it is all free.

You gotta like that!