Re: A bit elitist aren't you El Reg?
I also use Yahool with POP access, it is OK for spammy stuff but it suffers a lot more spam than gmail seems to with a significant upsurge in the last month or so. Maybe this explains a bit?
No phone number with mine, but every (rare) time I use the web login it pesters for one. However if signing up now they demand on.
Gmail didn’t demand one at sign-up but the fskers blocked POP access when I went abroad for a trip and pestered for a phone number to unlock it, which it was simply not worth giving. Returned to operating again when back home.
Both are out to whore you.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
