I was curious, so I ran some numbers on the free e-mail accounts people are using to sign up for the FeedLounge beta.
So far:
- Gmail: 44%
- Yahoo: 5%
- Hotmail: 2%
I was more than a little surprised to see Yahoo and Hotmail down so low.
This tells me that, at least among a certain segment of the web population, people will move to a tool they feel gives them a better user experience. We’re working extremely hard on the user experience for FeedLounge, so hopefully that bodes well for us. 
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Could also be due to the fact that people who use an web mail service that acts like an application are more likely to sign up for a web based feed reading service that acts like an application.
Hence:
Did you could those of us that have our vanity email addresses forwarded to gmail?
That’s what I do. I want my own personal addy but the full funtionality of gmail.
Gmail has a much better interface than the latter 2, plus I”m not getting a lot of spam.