hotmail is useless, gmail (or google apps if you have a domain name) is great.
Paying for email is a waste of time. Spammers find ways around teh spam filters, spam filter manager adds new rules, spammer finds ways around the rules, spam filter manager finds ways around the rules.. on and on.
I was one of the people responsible for the mail servers at a few ISP's, and the quality of the SPAM filtering at an ISP depends on how much money they are prepared to invest in blocking it. Telecom, TCL, and so forth use managed software and hardware things like Brightmail to filter email, which are ok. Slingshot (callplus) and a few other places use IRONPORT, which are awesome (I helped set up the ones at slingshot). Smaller ISP's use open source stuff like spamassassin and DSPAM, along with greylisting, which are ok, but they require day to day management, which they mostly dont have the time to do.
I built my own mailserver using POSTFIX, DSPAM, and greylisting awhile back and got about 5 spam in 6 months... but its alot of work. Now I just use google apps (gmail) and let them worry about it. I rarely get spam in my inbox despite having several domain catchalls going there.
In saying that.. they give you a junk mail folder so in case something accidentally gets blocked as spam, you can retrieve it (it happens alot more than you think). You are not actually "getting spam" - they are keeping it out of your inbox and saving it so you dont yell at them if something gets blocked. It doesnt matter where you go, you will still have a spam folder. My suggestion, just dont look in it.
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