Any better solution to handle email spams?

For many years i had been using yahoo email account; and yes it has spam filter but quite often useful or legitimate emails accidently got diverted into spam folder. So i still end up looking up for any important emails in the sea of spams!.

Grr... i hate those 40 inches plasma screen adverts and something about lobster keep hitting my mail box.....

My best solution is having multiple accounts ... that way I can tailor my filtering.

But my best account is my .Mac one - with the Mail.app on the Mac OS X that learns based on what you do and don't report as spam. All of them are highly flawed ...

Gmail handles spam quite effectively without sending genuine mails to the spam folder.

Mmmm I also use Yahoo.com, but I've never had a problem with them differentiating between normal e-mails and spam.

Like Mike said, multiple accounts. I have a "master" account and have various other accounts all set to forward to my master account, once one account starts getting spam I delete it. My webspace provider makes setting up fake forwarding-only accounts very easy. I heard once that Yahoo's pay alternative had something similar.

Multiple accounts:
1 standard account for the more important internet stuff (Amazon, RPGWatch, etc.)
1 private account for close friends and / or important business issues. Never post the address online!
1 throwaway account for forum registrations, newsletters, etc.
It helps to use services like Mailinator if you are sure you need an address only once.

Don´t use AOL or GoogleMail. Google is notorious for archiving everything and AOL even claims property on everything posted through their free email accounts.

Good idea. I remember i did own a Hotmail and google email accounts; probably due to the hassle to remember and keep weird passwords and usernames i created i never use them often... and then all forgotten. Maybe should create another yahoo's mail account. Hotmail any good now, any other suggestions?