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My overall opinion? Worth avoiding. Why?
Unlimited POP account collection
When I tried to do this, it seemed rather complicated. Some people would know how to do it all, easy pie, sure, but some of this was an alien language even to me.
Signatures
Netscape kept telling me that the JavaScript on line 7 was in error. It worked, but it got annoying very quickly. And this is a recent and advanced Netscape...
No added tagline to your outgoing messages
Well, thank you for that. Not that I take much notice of taglines, anyway.
Customisable interface
This was nice. My favourite option was the number of messages per page. I don't want the page to take forever to load, but I also don't want to keep skipping pages to find what I want. You can choose from 5, 10, 25, 100 or ALL. Not quite the diverse choices I was hoping for, but good enough, I suppose.
Draft message storage
I take this for granted, it's so common.
And for the rest... Can you say 'cookies'? The programmers sure can! I counted seven once, when I was logging in and opening messages. Ouch. They didn't send a welcome message, which is a small thing, but most places do, containing helpful hints and addresses where you can get help. The worst thing about it was the frames bar. I didn't have my 'auto-load images' option on in Preferences. Bad idea. First I had to find the picture I wanted. Luckily, they had alt-tabs on them telling me what they were. Then I had to load the image. Cross your fingers. One, I clicked on seven times, selected 'load image' in the little pop-up menu four times, and it still wouldn't load. I ended up asking it to 'open image', which it did in a different window, went 'back', and it loaded it from the cache. I should have just clicked on Images in the toolbar. Then, I tried to click on it. Take me to the page, please! No suck luck. I should have been expecting it by now. After a couple of minutes, I worked it out. I wrote down the URL that appeared on the bottom bar of my browser when I held the mouse over the image. A hard and annoying job when it is something like the 'Get Mail' button: http://www.020.co.uk/cgi/getmail.pl?CSL_report=getmail.tpl&CSL_completed=folders.pl%3fCSL_action%3dlist. Phew! And it didn't even work. It told me I didn't have any POP addresses to check. Gee, didn't the thought occur to them that maybe some people don't have POP addresses to check...? So I tried to ask it to check my POP addy. Refer to the Unlimited POP account Collection at the top of this page.
A little after that fiasco, I gave up in disgust. I may go back when I have more patience, but I suspect the letter I send to them at the end of this will contain a lot of negative points. I give them a 4 out of 10.