At one time on a freeserve account my dad was getting up to 500 every two days :S 10 of which were personal emails which needed attention, the rest, spam.
Not had that problem since I bought a domain and started using that for email, not one spam in a year or so, however I have started using gmail now, its very nice, ive had 3spam emails over the last month or two and all have been directed to the spam box
