Some friends of mine were kind enough to send me an invitation to join GMail! Needless to say, I jumped on the chance to register marklio immediately. Thanks guys!
My first request of GMail is to let me change the reply-to address so I can hide it behind another address using forwarding, the way I currently do with my mail.com address and my RoadRunner account. I'd really like to use a marklio.com address (don't send email there, it doesn't exist) as my email address because I feel like I own it.
If anyone has thoughts on what I should do with my email address, let me know.
P.S. You've gotta love this:
You are currently using 0 MB (0%) of your 1000 MB
Update: I'm now set up to use my old method in parallel with gmail! The only issue now is consolidating my sent mail.