Did you hear Yahoo is going to charge almost $20.00 a year for their currently free e-mail account? I've been using a similar service as my free backup email account... it's pretty nifty... easy to use and since it's relatively unknown, I've never received an unsolicited spam email message. Check out: http ://www.eudoramail.com/ Speaking of spam, I've been using a really cool free tool to slash the amount of unsolicated email spam from my inbox. I use Sneake mail to create on the fly temporary email addresses that forward to my regular account. That way, if I signup for a newsletter and they send me millions of spam messages, I just visit my account at Sneakemail and delete that temporary email address... bam... no more unsolicited email spam. Tell me what you think if you decide to try it. Mark

You got it wrong. Basic e-mail will still be free. The $20 charge is for additional storage space which few people will need. Yahoo also has spam filters you can set yourself and an automatic spam detector that puts spam into a bulk folder. Between the auto spam detector and the user made filters, nearly all spam ends up in either the trash or the bulk folder. Yahoo is still doing OK with advertising sales. They may charge for basic free e-mail in the future but they aren't yet. They're just trying to get some people to pay for some extra's, like storage.

From what I understand, they are no longer going to do pop3 mail, meaning you won't be able to have your outlook, outlook express, ect, retrieve it. Instead, you will have to log on with your internet browser to get your mail (which is how MSN does it, I believe) Hopefully I'm wrong... -Dave C

If and when they begin to charge for basic email services is when they loose me and hopefully alot of other people out there . We pay for on-line service as it is and i know alot of people who are saying once they charge for that it opens the door for alot of other charges well i refuse to pay for information i can go to any library to retrieve so i hope the folks up there are listening to us lil people we are the ones who made this so popular to begin with i wont think twice about disconnecting from the internet it isnt all thats its made out to be in the first place thanks for your ear and your time