use gmail like everyone else

I for one, will welcome our new Google overlords.

less quality
less services
less features

fuck you telstra, you better fucking charge me less per month you greedy moles.

Doesn't really surprise me given Telstra have been tightly integrated with the Office365 infrastructure since it launched in Australia last year.

register a domain and look after your own email

Since I'm one who thinks that changing e-mail addresses (sometimes as often as every year) is unacceptable, I've stuck with an @bigpond.com address since I first signed up with dialup at the turn of the century.

So this is actually welcome news. Till now, @bigpond.com e-mail services were pathetic. The web service (which was changed about three years ago) is downright awful, and there's never been any IMAP support nor Exchange support until around year or so ago, which you had to pay extra for the 'Premium' service (for a lousy 20MB storage quota). It's POP or nothing, which is pointless in an age of mobile computing.

Telstra know that people are shifting to cloud-based e-mail services like GMail and the like. This is a wise move. I say, bring it.

Lol ISP e-mail...

Google Apps is the shit. And it's quite hard to get a Gmail address you want nowadays.

change email address once, profit forever.