Free E-mail accounts are a great thing to have. One great thing is that many of them allow you to have a pretty large inbox for all your messages. This is great because then you can archive e-mails, documents, pictures, forwards, etc. in these e-mail accounts. Yahoo, for example, has other features that go with the e-mail services, such as Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Games, etc.
      We also recommend that you have a free e-mail account that you use strictly for online subscriptions, newsletters, shopping, etc. You might have already realized that when you subscribe to a service or anything online, that 9 out of 10 times, your e-mail got sold and you start receiving SPAM e-mails. It only takes one time of subscribing to something to be a victim of SPAM. The advantage of having an e-mail account that you use for this purpose keeps you from getting SPAM in your personal e-mail account. Plus if you choose not to check it, many free e-mail services delete your account upon 30 days of inactivity. So, you just create another one the next time you need to shop online or subscribe to something.