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The About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Awards

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Which is the best spam filtering 2012?

About.com readers have nominated their favorite spam filter for the About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Awards. Now, it's time to decide.

Voting was open from February 22 to March 21, 2012. Winners will be announced March 30, 2012.

Examine the five nominees below, and

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for the best spam filtering 2012.

Then, examine other email categories — from best free email service to best email innovation 2011 — for the About.com 2012 Readers' Choice Awards.

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Mail.com and GMX Mail

Mail.com and GMX Mail analyze messages and their origin to block spam. You can also set up personal black and white lists that preempt the defaults.

Windows Live Hotmail

Windows Live Hotmail uses not only sieves that identify spam for all users but also personalized filters that work based a user's history of email interactions.

Gmail

Gmail's spam filtering is highly personalized and eventually effective.

Yahoo! Mail

Yahoo! Mail's huge repository of mail and users lets it identify spam solidly.

AOL and AIM Mail

AIM and AOL Mail profit from AOL's long history of blocking junk mail aggressively but not overeagerly.