Years ago when broadband came in my mother was also paying for AOL she thought to keep her e-mail address. I saw her using her AOL e-mail the one day and said so how much are you paying for internet and she said $89.99 for Cable Internet and then $24.95 to AOL for e-mail and I put a stop to that quickly when I told her that she doesnt have to pay to keep her e-mail, she only needed to pay if she was still using their 56k dial up service. It would be pretty bad if someone was paying for say the last 10 years for AOL to find out that 120 payments x $25 was all wasted money... = $3000 USD
My mom fortunately only paid 9 months before I caught this problem, so only $225 wasted.