You misread my statement. I said I have no problem with email providers charging for certain services. I didn't say I didn't have a problem with *me* paying for them, because, well, I'm not going to pay for email when I get it through my ISP already.

My Yahoo! mail account is simply a convenience because I have so many other places (incl. this BBS) where I've used it, and it keeps the spam away from my ISP's account and my permanent forwarding address, which I try not to give out. I don't mind them charging, but if I can find a way to avoid the charges, and it's legal, I'm all about it. I'll let the scholars debate whether it's ethical, but from a technical standpoint, all it's doing is translating information from the webmail interface to your POP3 inbox. I could write a script to do the same thing. This POP3 server is just a much more convenient way to do it.