The reality is, Yahoo is losing money. Free email is part of that. What should they do?
- Continue losing money until they run out and close, returning nothing to their stockholders?
- Discontinue free mail entirely?
- Squirrel it around a bit (change TOS) to make keeping it running justifyable?.
Free anything on the Internet is in it's last days. The investment period is over and it's time for some return on that investment - or simply close it and cut the losses if it isn't viable.