Reply #6: When I was moaning about Earthlink, many NetZero users checked in

[Bossy Monkey]

and spoke highly of it. Earthlink actually does a pretty good job against spam. My problem with them has been poor connections, although this has been improving lately, and may be the local phone company's fault rather than Earthlink's anyway. On the other hand, I understood that new Earthlink subscribers are forced to accept all kinds of bells and whistles of dubious usefulness, so you might need to ask somebody who has signed up with them in the last year or so before considering Earthlink.

If you're getting spammed a lot, it's good to have AdAware, although no doubt you know this already. Also, if your email address is on any personal webpages, stick nospam in the middle along with a note to human visitors telling them to take nospam out of the address in order to contact you. Defeats the evil spambots.