I'll drop my Yahoo account (Score 2, Informative)

When news about the takeover offer came out I contacted Yahoo. I told them that I had my current Yahoo account for at least 9 years, the last 6 of which I have paid for the account. I told them that if they merged with Microsoft that I would delete my account. You can do the same by going here:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/my/general.html

I'm not that keen on Google either. I don't like the idea of my email being read, even if it is only software scanning for keywords for advertising. Several years ago on Slashdot there was an article about how Google white washed images of the Tianmamen Square Massacre out of the Chinese version of their site. I can't get the images of the real images versus the ones google used out of my head.

I guess if yahoo merges with either Microsoft or Google I will just have to go with some small third party email provider.