I received a "friendly" email from Yahoo! today and a few days back, advising me that for $19.99/year I am able to use the POP3/forwarding service! Is everything becoming a rip-off these days?

That really pi$$es me off. I am tired of always changing email address', and I thought that Yahoo! would not follow the rip-off schemes of Hotmail etc.
I
really hope that this site does not become a pay-site! If so, then they'd better have some "interesting" pix etc ...
... but then I would have taken-off seeking a different destination