I've had at least two email addresses for years. I've got my "home" address, but when I started posting on "public" boards I got another one. I started out with a hotmail address, but there wasn't much traffic on it, and Microsoft cancelled itI then went on to a Lycos address. This was very good for a while, but then it started getting difficult to log on, and was often dreadfully slow when I could get access. The the Russian spammers found the address (I had emails with some fascinating offers - isn't it amazing what some people think you will believe? 
) so I abandoned that one and went on to googlemail, later transferring to gmail. I've found the email very good and like you, I get virtually no spam on it.
There's one thing I do regret about abandoning the Lycos addy, though. I lost the details about the slowest email I ever received. I complained to a webmaster in New Zealand about one of his members; as near as I can remember it was in about 2000. He replied fairly promptly - the time and date were on his email - but I didn't receive it until about 2007. The actual dates are a bit foggy in my mind after all this time, but the figure I remember for the delay is 7 years 2 months and a few days. What happened to cause that delay I have no idea.
I have lately developed some reservations about Google, though. I don't like the way they try and collect data about the people who post on their boards, and I was very disturbed about the way their camera vans took data from unsecured wireless networks when they were taking the photographs for their "street view." I simply don't believe them when they say that it happened by accident. Do they seriously expect us to believe it was accidental that the relevant software got (a) written and (b) installed in the camera vans? It's enough to make a cat laugh!
