Originally posted here by Guus
I don't get it - why is everybody using accounts like hotmail, yahoo! and other free providers in the first place? Everyone connects to the internet, right? So everybody has some sort of ISP, right? The mayority of ISP's provide email-support, right? I had myself a little counting:

It's not very complicated........When you change ISP's you loose that email account. Simple. Web based accounts are permanent.