Just my experience, but I've had pop3's on many different reputable hosts because it looked more official to me to have
[email protected], and no matter how great the host, I've always had downtime, and recenlty the downtime was like a day when I was expecting SEVERAL important e-mails, so I had to call all these people and have them send the shit to my aol address instead.
People may be prejudiced against AOL but I trust them more than anything to be UP when I need my email the most.
Just my
Nz