What is the best way to stop spam without changing my emal address?

I've had the same yahoo email address for years, so it has a lot tied to it. I've been getting a ton of spam lately.



What does marking as spam do besides just delete them?What is the best way to stop spam without changing my emal address?
Getting a new email address wouldn't be a solution for long. According to the anti-spam experts, we are all seeing far more spam mails now than ever before. It is because the spammers are becoming more clever about getting past the spam filters. That's why more spam is making it to the Inbox instead of going straight to the Bulk/Spam folder, and why some of your good mails are ending up in the Bulk/Spam folder. There are a few basic things we can all do to keep spam to a minimum...

1. Spam mails that go straight to Bulk/Spam should be left there, unopened. You can empty that folder any time you want, but never NEVER open spam mails. DON'T try to unsubscribe from anything and DON'T click any links in those mails.

2. Spam mails that land in your Inbox should be marked as Spam so that they are moved to the Bulk/Spam folder and placed on the Blocked list. (Blocking an address prevents mails from being received from that address again in the future.)

3. Any email that you are the least bit suspicious about should be deleted immediately. Don't let curiosity get the better of you. Simply opening a spam email out of curiosity could alert the spammers that you have an active email address (they probably didn't know it before), to which they will undoubtedly send TONS of spam mail in the future.What is the best way to stop spam without changing my emal address?
It also blocks the same spammer from sending again





Here's what I did back in 03, I started using firefox and Mailwasher to filter my mail I blocked/ bounced over 2400 creeps. I now get only about 1 a day