quote: "the world's largest free e-mail system with more than 360 million users around the world. (Yahoo has more than 300 million and Gmail a little less than

quote: "the world's largest free e-mail system with more than 360 million users around the world. (Yahoo has more than 300 million and Gmail a little less than 200 million, according to comScore" It would be interesting to get some stats on the actual usage from the 360 million users. I would imagine every other account being created for a single spam message and disposed never to be used again. One thing the author didn't experience enough is the lack of spam filter (which imho is the Gmail's feather in the hat). I opened a live.com account around a month back. I got a decent account very close to resembling my name and one I thought could be forwarded to my gmail account. I logged in and I see the animated flash banner distracting me from even seeing my first email. It's like I logged in to see this banner ad. I logged out after finding that hotmail doesn't allow you to forward your email to any other windows live associated account(hotmail?) or a domain's email(which I didn't try). A week later, I logged in to try the forwarding to domain options. I wish I had taken a screenshot, but I had one and half pages of spam. Now this emailid; mind you - I didn't email anyone; I didn't receive any email from any friends. Nothing!. All I did was send a test email to my gmail account. So I logged out for good. I won't be visiting live/hotmail anytime soon.