OT: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

[Josef Lowder]

In the past, I have pleaded for help with this issue, and some have
responded with frustration that I brought this up again ... so I
apologize in advance for bringing this up again now.  But the problem
has worstened to an enormously frustrating extent.

More than 2,000 spam email messages now come into my gmail account
every day.  It is perplexing and infuriating to me that google/gmail
will not allow creating filters to *delete* (not just move to trash)
all this garbage that is clearly identifiable and definable.

Recently, gmail began to mark about half to 2/3rds of this garbage
with the title *****SPAM***** in the subject line.  Why would they
bother doing that instead of just totally blocking or automatically
deleting forever all this garbage rather than just labeling it as
SPAM?   Or at least give us the option to choose to have all such mail
deleted rather than put into a spam folder.

I (and many others) have written to Google and to Gmail forums about
this numerous times, but of course no one at Google ever responds.

What prompts this message today is that I have recently talked with
other email users  who are even larger volume users of email than I
and they have expressed amazement at the volume of spam that I am
receiving.  Because, they have reported to me that they are *not*
receiving even 1/100th of the volume of spam that I receive.

So, can anyone recommend any remedy or alternate, perhaps even a paid
web mail service, by which I might be able to gain some control over
this nightmare?

I would certainly be willing to pay for a solution.

Help!