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When it comes to getting rid of spam, there are really only two options that will work wonders, and the rest just slightly stop spam from coming in. The first option, and best in my opinion, is to use Gmail, Google’s free email service.

When Google made GMAIL, they purchased the best spam filtering software available, and let me tell you that it worked. Unfortunately the software they purchased is only viable for large companies, but Google made it so everyone could have it through their service. So what makes it so special? Well I don’t really know the inner workings, but let me say that I never receive any spam in my GMAIL account. This of course doesn’t mean that one won’t occasionaly slip through, but still, that is pretty good for me who receives more then a thousand spam emails a day.

The next option is to use the Thunderbird email program, which is similar to Outlook, but much easier to use in my opinion. The reason though that this is a great second option, is becasue of it adaptive spam filter built in, that over time reads all of the emails that you mark as junk, and over time you will receive less and less of it.

Out of the two options though, GMAIL is your best bet, but of course you can’t always use a Google email address so sometimes you need a great program like Thunderbird. It all depends on your situation.