Yahoo Mail just announced its first redesign in five years and it took the tech community 20 hours to notice. Meanwhile Aol Mail went down last week without making a sound. Imagine the echo chamber uproar if either had happened to Gmail.

So if we&'re not using Aol and Yahoo, who is

People with low credit scores according to Credit Karma. While the above chart doesn&'t mean that changing your @gmail.com address to a @yahoo.com or an @aol.com will actually lower your score, it is showing that for one reason or another people who use Yahoo Mail tend to rank lower on their credit score analysis.

From Credit Karma:

&''Certainly switching email providers will not increase or decrease your credit score. It&'s more the case that people with a certain score have a greater likeliness to use a particular email provider. Why this happens is probably due to some demographic skew which then carries to the email domain.&''

Of all the mail service providers, Yahoo definitely has the most users at 94.6 million uniques a month. In terms of user age, our parent company Aol Mail skews the oldest in the 65+ age range (!), while Yahoo hits the 35-44 range, Hotmail clocks in at 25-34 and Gmail the same at 25-34 according to comScore.

In terms of household income, Yahoo Mail users are skewing towards the under $15k income bracket when compared to the rest of the Internet, despite the fact that a majority of users Yahoo users make between $40K to $60K.

Perhaps the fact that people who make less money (because they&'re students or other people with no income) are overrepresented on Yahoo Mail might shed some light on the Credit Karma statistics

In any case, you can add this to the pile of &''What Your Email Address Says About You&'' posts. And, in this case, it says that you&'ve got bad credit.