I agree *wholeheartedly* with the article author.. (Score 1)

I'm sorry, but there is just TOO MUCH crap out there to allow my young kids to have their own email addresses. They don't need to read about B1G T!T$, 0ra1 $3X, and everything else. They just don't. Anyhow, I've found that Hotmail works quite well in this regard. As a parent, you can establish an email address for your kids with a "whitelist" only type of setup. Basically, you specifically define WHO can email them, and everything else is deleted. A bit of a hassle to maintain, but not as difficult as explaining why they're receiving "$3X w1th a D0nk3y" emails.... My $.02