Time Warner Cable/Charter Transition

[kalakoa]

sign up with gmail, select "custom" and somehow keep @hawaii.rr.com

GMail will only handle "custom" domains that you control; the "validation" consists of your inserting a TXT record at the top of the domain.

I can't tolerate the aspects of Gmail that suck

The "paid" version sucks less -- and it's way cheaper than managing my own spam-trap.