A pal of mine, who has been protected from the outer world by bigfoot for eons, has just changed to a goog-oil mail address. I'll have to ask him why next time we Skype. Knowing him, it would have to make a lot of sense.
I use Yahoo mail and have found them pretty good, the SBC connection perhaps helps, as I'm a paying customer for the latter's broadband service. Indeed, the Yahoo bit just comes as standard.
They recently changed my modem/router free of charge, it was waaaaaaaay out of guarantee.
Having said that, I hate having to type sbcglobal.net after my monica. Why not just sbc ?