[Heel n Toe]

We are ditching our lame old Juno internet access, which only has dialup available in our area, and going to Time Warner Cable internet. Have been up and running for a coupla weeks now.

So any of our Juno emails (also web-based) we want to save have to be forwarded over to another web-based system before we contact Juno and cancel with them.

I have a Yahoo account that I don't use much, and I don't like its current setup, and a knowledgable bud who is a network administrator said he's about to get rid of his Yahoo account because he thinks their spam filtering isn't doing as good a job as it used to.

He doesn't like Gmail on a philosophical basis... that whole "we save everything forever and if some lawyer subpoenas us for it, we may have to give it up" thing.

My younger son has Gmail and thinks it's great.

Another bud has had Hotmail over 10 years, but says he would probably go with Gmail if he were starting now, because he thinks Google seems to always do a good job with everything they do.

We're looking for something fairly basic and simple... don't need a lot of bells and whistles, especially if they just clutter up the screen give you a smaller area to view an email when you open it.

I would love to see several of the best systems open on a screen. I've seen what Outlook looks like and I don't like it... it is what my wife has at work.

There is "Windows Live Hotmail" now. I'm trying to figure out whether basic Hotmail still exists.

Your thoughts?