Hi bmooreu,
Thanks for posting. There aren't any settings I can tweak for you, but I can send your feedback over to our email admins. In the meantime, here are some tips on combating spam. Looks like you're already doing at least one of them by indicating which ones are spam:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/gmail-stop-spam-emails/
As for creating filters, as suggested in the link above, here are instructions on how to set up filters in webmail: http://premiums.hughesnet.com/support/email/advanced/creating_filters.htm
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