How can I stop the unsolicited e-mails which fall in my inbox?

You can't stop them completely. Unfortunately, they are a fact of email life. But you can exercise smart mail-handling practices...

1. Spam mails that go straight to Bulk should be left there (and emptied occasionally if you want). But they should never NEVER be opened.

2. Spam mails that land in your Inbox should be marked as Spam so that they are moved to Bulk and placed on the Blocked list (blocking that address so you don't receive any more mails from them, although spammers never go back to previously used sending addresses).

3. Any email that you are even the least bit suspicious about should be deleted immediately. Don't let curiosity get the better of you. Simply by opening a spam email, you could be alerting the spammers that you have an active email address (they probably didn't know it before), to which they will most certainly send TONS of spam mail in the future.

I keep hearing people reply "mark that address as spam", which might make you feel better, but it's not likely you'll ever see that address used again, since it was probably "harvested" by the cowardly spammers for a one-time use. Besides, are you going to mark the entire Internet as spam, eventually? It is a very ineloquent solution.

My advice would be to set up filters to block certain terms, but they don't seem to work in Yahoo. I set up filters to block message headers with certain words in them and put them in the trash. This would work, if Yahoo's filters were working properly. which they are not.

I used a program called Mail Washer for a while, which pre-screens your email and cleans it up. It's kind of cumbersome though, since you have to run Mail Washer BEFORE you check Yahoo.

I've been petitioning Yahoo to simply allow users to block all addresses that are not in their contact list. Hotmail does this, and I never get any spam in my inbox, and I simply check my junk mail folder on occasion to make sure someone I know didn't send me something; then I'd add them to my contacts.

I have noticed more spam in my yahoo account recently too. Just check off the spam msgs and click the spam button which is at the top near the delete message button. Whatever you do, don't open them- then the spammer will know they have a live email address and they'll keep sending to you.

Block the addresses and still you get it report it as Spam.