Pop goes the email

For quite a long time Yahoo! Mail was my default web-based email client. I have, since, switched to Gmail - atleast over the last 3 years or so. Apart from the quick easy to use interface, I'm most impressed by its free POP & IMAP accesses. Only Yahoo! seems to be stubborn in not offering a free POP access - you can even use Hotmail in MS Outlook. Yes, you can call it proprietary, with both Hotmail & Outlook from the MS stable but atleast I can. So, as of the last 2 years I have been moving all my subscriptions, mailing lists, offerings etc. onto Gmail. I also use Hotmail through the Gmail interface which allows me to access all my web based emails in one place, atleast the ones I use. Yahoo! seems to be in Y2K world yet.