| Email has become an integral part of our lives. I think | | | | choose from. Signing up for an email account is very |
| it is the most convenient and effective medium of | | | | easy. I remember what a chaos Google Gmail "invite |
| digital communication. My first email address was of | | | | only" email service had created. People were crazy to |
| an account provided by my ISP (Internet Service | | | | sell the invitations and crazier to buy them. |
| Provider) in 2000. I do not have that address | | | | All in all, today we are free to have as many email |
| anymore but I still remember the sense of pride it | | | | address we want. Quality is not an issue anymore |
| gave me. There were free email providers but many | | | | with free email accounts. A free quality service to |
| transactional websites did not accept email address | | | | grab, how many of them will you go after? Here is |
| of free accounts. Free mail address was also looked | | | | the catch, it is easy to buy an automobile but difficult |
| down upon. | | | | to maintain. Same goes true for email address, it is |
| In 2010 things have changed so much. Most of us | | | | not how many you can have but how many you can |
| use free web mail accounts. They are equally good | | | | manage. |
| and sometimes better than many paid services. | | | | For most of us 2-3 email address would suffice. I |
| Limitation of mail inbox space, which earlier used to | | | | have 1 Hotmail, 1 Gmail and 2 Yahoo email accounts. |
| be curse of free webmail account, is no more there. | | | | Hotmail and Yahoo are there for historic reasons. I |
| We have many good free email service providers to | | | | think the new mix will be different. |