Should I go with Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail?

Haven't tried gmail.
Dumped Hotmail and have used Yahoo mail ever since.

 

Yahoo certainly looks the best IMHO and has a pretty good spam filter AFAIK but I currently use Gmail as they offer the ability to get mail from other accounts using POP3.

 

I used Hotmail when it was new. Then I used Gmail. Hotmail is history for me (too much crap on the screen) and Gmail I now use for my publication emails (like Computerworld and Cnet stuff). Google does good software, IMO.

I use my ISP for my personal mail service, the mail is downloaded onto my PC and deleted off the server (probably held for awhile but not over 6 months I bet). I just don't want my personal email stored on some server forever.