I've never used Hotmail, 'cos my daughter has a Hotmail account and I go bananas checking her e-mails for her when she's away on tour - takes forever to open even on broadband, and there's always trouble opening attachments, and when people send her attachments they get bouncec back to sender etc. etc. etc. ad infinitum. I have two Yahoo accounts, each with 100MB storage, one I use for 'proper' e-mails, the other I use for signing up to sites that might spam me. Yahoo filters all spam out into a bulk folder, and automatically deletes it after a month. I have to say that I think it's a great service. It also has a Briefcase, where you can upload files into various folders, and set different access levels to, so you can share files. Very good if you don't want anything too sophisticated.