I just saw this post... and while I am not OMT...

I thought I would share this with you:

I have 3 emails with Yahoo... one remains totally spam free (after over 4yrs). Why? Because I only use it for a few people. I believe that whenever your email becomes
"public" then you are a target. My other two emails are attached to forums, and they receive a ton of spam. This spam varies in intensity. Every once in a while
Yahoo cleans it up. They give a "box" with a distorted number of letters, to
you when you send, perhaps 3 times a year. Whenever this occurs, my spam
falls to very small amounts in those two boxes.

Also, our home email, which has remained private...for many years, hardly
gets any spam. (we never use it online in forums). We do get solicitations in that box, but never the typical spam/porn stuff.

I personally think it is an internet problem. People who send you multiple lists of forwarded mails, or those who have nasty intentions, who know your mail addy, then send you stuff ad infintum.

The new Yahoo beta...which I just started using has really cut down on the spam issue. They have renamed their bulk folder to spam..which is a "truth" I guess these days! LOL