Kelly: That's an interesting alternative. I wonder how good they are at those prices. Though, Apple's site goes down far too often.
RHP:
"We recommend that our subscribers use the services of their own ISP when sending email"
All ISPs gives you an email account with your Internet access with the capability to sent and recieve email. And some like earthLink.net pretty much make you use their SMTP servers for sending out mail. You can set this preference in your mail program's settings, using several different email accounts, and your ISP doesn't even have to be notified, besides they don't care how many accounts use SMTP for sending email, they just care about server space for email recieving accounts.