Ever since I first got on the net about 4 years ago, I have tried almost every new e-mail service. That has become impossible lately with every moronic mom and pop offering some sort of mail service, but Ive tried to keep up. When I first came across RediffMail, I thought, Just another stupid company offering mail for the sake of offering it. But I was proven wrong when I started using the service. The Rediff mail servers are blazingly fast. I dont know how they do this with all the traffic they have, but mail delivery is almost instantaneous. Hotmail, which is by far the most popular free mail service on the web, takes forever to recieve mail from an alien server. In my opinion, its crap. They just have a bloated rating because theyre supposedly the oldest free mail site on the web. Hotmail used to be good, but has not been able to keep up with demand, especially after Microsoft bought it. I think Microsoft doesnt give a damn about it anymore, and thats why if you are currently a hotmail user, stop trashing your valuable time and go to rediff.com!