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An anonymous reader writes with the question in the title: does your ISP do a decent job culling spam? The reason I'm asking is that my ISP is Verizon and the Verizon spam filter is next to useless. It only blocks 15% of spam while also blocking 5% of legitimate emails. I've tried calling Verizon support a couple of times and the experience is about as pleasant and productive as banging my head on a wall.

At this point I think my best move is to change ISP, but before I go around changing my email address at probably dozens of web sites I'd like to be sure that a new ISP would actually be better. THIS There's no reason to use the email provided to you by your ISP. It's just another way to keep you locked into their services. Once upon a time, before web mail, and easily available domain names and hosting services, it made more sense to just use whatever your ISP gave you. But there is absolutely no reason to use it now, and it can actually cause a lot of problems as the OP has pointed out.

Personally, I wouldn't recommend using a 3rd party Email provider at all. I would just buy my own domain name and figure out my own hosting solution for the email. Even if you just forward the email to GMail (This is what I do), you own the email address, and you don't have to worry about what happens when you want to switch the interfrace, and end up having to change your email address in the process. Many sites use your email address as your login, assuming that nobody would ever want to change their email address. Sure, GMail may be nice now, but they've shut down services in the path.

I ended up switching email addresses a couple times when email services decided to close up, or just start offering really bad service. I don't ever want to have to switch email addresses again.

I don't think the OP is suggesting gmail is going anywhere soon. I think he is suggesting that they may not be round in the (not soon) future.

There was a time when AOL wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. Maybe they still aren't, but that claim is straining credulity. At the very least, being stuck with an AOL email address in 2015 is not an ideal situation to be in. Is it really so hard to imagine that one might not want to be stuck with a gmail email address in 2035? I pay for my own domain and external hosting. It has Spam Assassin on it and gets about 40% of the spam.

I have GMail configured to pull in my email from that account. GMail's spam filter gets the other 59% of spam.

I set up Gmail to send as my personal email address instead of my gmail address. This way I have my own domain and I get to take advantage of Gmail's spam filter. The one thing that sucks about the set-up is that Gmail has a randomized timer that polls external accounts based on some algorithm and it can sometimes take 30 minutes for email to show up. To get around this I set up both accounts on most of my devices so that I can check my email server if the message isn't in Gmail. A cheap VPS plus a domain name would also be more than adequate for hosting your own email, or even a low power ARM based machine running at home on the end of your DSL assuming you have a static ip and an ISP that doesn't filter SMTP traffic.

As for spam filtering, a filter that's dedicted to you will usually be more effective too as it can learn about the email *You* typically receive. A lot of spam is sent around in languages like russian and chinese, but if you can't read these languages then chances are you will never receive any legitimate email written in these languages. A major email provider cannot block entire languages because they might have customers who speak those languages, but a mail server dedicated to one person can easily and reasonably do so. Sendiri aku dalam gelapku. For the technically savvy, sure.

For the average everday user, this option is right out. This is what I used to. Unfortunately, keeping my spam filters up to date ended up being a pretty major chore. Even with blocking everything but english, I still spent more time than I wanted training the filters what was spam and wasn't.