I love gmail accounts for a number of reasons -- especially it’s outstanding spam filtering. I have numerous accounts set up for various interest and use each only for a specific purpose i.e., linux. spambitemethis. acountdoesnotexist@gmail.com. For "stuff" that may lead to my address getting into the hands of a spammer -- I have a generic address.

The above results in little spam or spam-filter lose of focused messages and google filtering out thousands of spam messages of the generic account.

An added bonus is I conserve on the use of my computer resources and my time. I rarely give out any of my personal website addresses. I could use spam-assassin but if one were to get contaminated I would probably just redirect valid mail to a new account and delete the contaminated one. As for addresses that I would not want to change, I have been careful and lucky. Should I get unlucky I would be forced to follow in oil’s footsteps for that particular account but, thank God -- not all.

Google accounts are easy to come by these days but, if someone here needs an invite (not your nephew) -- email me at gdb.invite@ and mention our discussion here. You can use any old temporary account -- yahoo or whatever.