it's back up.
also why are people putting it down?
if you use your isp's mail service and you change isp's, it's a real pain the ass to change all your emails.
Trash, that's why. Had one for years, tons and tons of spam. And I am not talking "shop here," I am talking some nasty trash. So I cancelled it and started a new Hotmail account. What happened? Spam again, almost immediately, before I even told anyone what it was. Sure, it was in the "spam" folder, but it still made me question Hotmail as to why I was even getting it at all.
With Gmail, on the other hand, I have gotten ZERO spam. Yes, zero. And I have had the account for 5+ years.