zazzang wrote:
Here for this reason alone. It's becoming unbearable how much spam I get lately! I started exclusively using icloud email years ago because it only had emails I wanted. sigh.
Over time, the more you use an email address, the more spam it will get. This is true of email from any provider. I hardly ever use my iCloud email address so I get zero spam. My Gmail account, my primary address, is a different story. It gets lots. Fortunately, Gmail's spam filtering is quite good. I recognize there are many good reasons for not using Gmail.
One of the things you can do is have one email address you use for sending email to known individuals (friends, family, trusted associates) and another that you use for any kind of online business such as purchasing things from websites, subscribing to newsletters, donating to political campaigns, entering contests. In other words, anything where you don't have a personal relationship with the recipient. The personal address should remain relatively free of spam for longer.