[Air-l] Hotmail to charge?

The free aspects of the internet are being eroded. The free homepages provided by homepage.com have gone altogether. Yahoo Geocities have introduced two tier services, for those who pay and those who don't. This morning I discovered that Hotmail are also introducing a "new improved service" for a small fee and restricting just slightly the fee for the second-class members who do not pay for a service which has always been free before Bill Gates got his hands on it. Is it just a matter of time before those who do not pay will receive no service? Has anyone else noticed similar trends?