Move away from AOL to GMail

Free at last - - -
"Extracting your digital life from your old e-mail account has gotten a lot easier. In the spring, Google introduced a feature — made possible by the TrueSwitch e-mail switching service — that lets you import your address book and old messages from several other mail services into a new Gmail account.

First, sign up for a Gmail account (gmail.com) if you haven’t done so. Once you have created an account and have your new mailbox on screen, click the Settings link at the top of the Gmail window."
read the full post at David Pogue's Personal Tech column here.