I do have one or two gmail accounts, but they are not my favourite accounts. I always feel uncomfortable with anything that comes from Google, particularly the advertisements that appear on the same topics as the topics I'm posting on. So I reserve these accounts only for commercial purposes, like opening an account, etc. No Web e-mail service is really 100% secure, but Hotmail has made some changes that I like, particularly the Outlook feature it has added to all of its accounts, and it has beefed up on security too. I feel pretty nostalgic about Yahoo, as it was my first e-mail account. I have quite a few Yahoo e-mail accounts and have gone through ups and downs with Yahoo. I must say lately though the Yahoo service has been much improved.