My grandfather discovered email about three or four years ago and I regularly receive 50+ emails a day, all extremely reactionary and homophobic (he's a formerly lapsed Catholic who took up his childhood religion with, shall we say, some zeal). I have set up filters for certain keywords to go straight to the trash, and a separate folder entirely devoted to the rest of his emails (which I scan once a week or so, just to see if there's anything non-political and family oriented).

When he first started emailing frantically and politically, I sent back a few acid responses, but now I figure, anybody he emails either already agrees with him or ignores him completely. So I feel for Spammed, but honestly, the internet is full of information; and even with email, you can give or take what you receive as you like.