Freedom. It's powerful. You can't beat it. Email can be tied to one computer, using an email client (program) like Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird and others, which are all installed on your computer. What if you use more than one computer? Do you install and download your email, contacts, etc. to multiple machines? Having to deal with multiple copies of the same email or having to maintain more than one independent address book for all of your contacts? No way!
Once I acquired a sec...