And you usually get one emailbox with one internet dial-up account. Let's look at a company with 200 employees. Many individuals, over the course of their lifetime will move, necessitating a change from one local Internet dial-up provider to another. As well, you probably subscribe to a number of automated services, ALL of which will not know of your new e-mail address. These problems often make people wary of changing their dial-up provider, even when they want to, because of the effort and disruption involved.
Many email accounts receive hundreds of email items per day.
Many of them may be relatively unimportant but they all come in a time-based order. The time that it takes to retreive all the items, and then read them all to determine which are important could take many minutes or hours a day. The others could be accessed at less hectic times, or after a longer period of time. However, when the term ends, the account is given up, and along with it their e-mail account. As more and more families experience the fun and benefits of using the Internet, each family member will develop their own interests and e-mail connections.