1) I have always used my Yahoo! account as “spam mail” i.e. the account I use when I plan to delete 90% of my incoming email and the email I use when I have a pretty good idea that my email WILL be sold off to 3rd parties for spam purposes (only because Yahoo! does tend to have a good spam filter and I could care less what gets in there).

2) I NEVER pay for email, websites, etc. as a matter of principle. Yeah, I’m cheap like that. But. If I DID pay for it, you can bet I expect a much better level of service than the freebies are getting. Thus, ANY major web presence (Google, Yahoo, etc.) will never get ONE DIME from me, as I already know their ‘net police are nonexistent. Really, they’re serving what, .5% of their population?