Spam begone!

A few weeks ago I switched my email client from Microsoft Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird and my browser from Mozilla to FireFox. Thunderbird is, simply put wonderful! I use an IMAP mail server at Georgia State Unversity and our sys admin has put spam_assassin on it. He has it set so that it detects email with viruses and labels them with "****VIRUS****. So I trained the Thunderbird Junk detetector to classify these as junk. I also have any email with strange characters in it classified as junk. Just these two steps have gotten rid of over 90% of my spam. I no longer dread opening up my email.