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5 good reasons not to use your Internet Provider's e-mail account

All Internet Service Providers (ISPs) supply their users with a free internet account. This is usually in the form of This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . While this service comes free with your internet access, there are a number of very good reasons why you shouldn't use this address for your e-mail.

• Most ISPs do not provide comprehensive e-mail virus scanning, and the ones that do often charge extra for it. Why do you have to scan for viruses when they've already reached your computer, when a service provider can comprehensively scan your e-mail, for free, before you've even received it? You can also be sure that a large service provider's industrial strength virus scanner hasn't been affected or disabled by settings or malicious programs on your computer.
• Most ISPs do not provide the best spam filtering,, and some even have the hide to charge for the service. Some sources say that e-mail spam, or junk mail, makes up over 80% of all e-mail sent. Spam can be very hard to detect, what makes one message addressed to you legitimate, and the other message spam? To accurately determine the difference requires some incredibly smart and adaptive programming and a massive volume of e-mail to analyse. As an added bonus, most phishing e-mails can be filtered out as spam, so a good filter protects you from most phishing attacks as well.

• ISPs provide very limited storage space for e-mail. Most providers will only grant you 10 to 25 Megabytes of space on their servers to store your e-mail. This is fine for normal use, but the onus of backing up your e-mail falls on you. What if something goes wrong with your computer?
• Internet providers will cancel your e-mail address when you cancel or transfer your internet account. Can you imagine being trapped into continuing to pay for an internet service with 'Provider A' because everyone knows your e-mail address, when you know 'Provider B' is offering better service at a better price?
• Internet providers supply only the most basic e-mail access. Why settle for basic when you can get evolving features for free? ISPs usually provide limited e-mail access when you're not at your main computer, and provide no support for checking your mail from your mobile phone or PDA.