>>Independent email providers is one of the few thing that were done right, so today it's not so easy to track you down for average pieces of shit. It was always a choice. As a subscriber, your ISP would provide you with one or more email addresses at no additional cost: but you weren't forced to use them. There were always other email providers available, as well as private solutions. Now most people seem to use Gmail which IMHO is an abomination. Google is constantly tracking you and even have been known to scan your email messages to target their marketing.