lol, well, I like my gmail account because although 95% of my emails are automated daily/monthly/weekly/whatever newsletters/etc. I do get the odd email, and I like the spam filter and powerful interface gmail has. Practically all my spam gets caught, but what I want comes through, and considering how many sketchy websites I've signed up to, that's a good thing.
And speaking from experience, almost none of my spam comes from free hosts, because they use their filters on outgoing traffic as well as incoming, lol (generally speaking anyway).