Gmail

You can used this technique to register on sites and forum. To name a few → digg, myspace, newsvine, 9rules, blogger & msn etc.

Gravatar sign-up process took less than 5 minute to complete and they don’t burden you with filling form chores (i.e: address, newsletter subscriptions, marketing questionnaire). So we pick Gravatar Web services for this guide.

Requirements

You must have the following email.

1. Gmail or Google Aps Gmail

Gmail Plus-Addressing Features

In brief, Gmail services has undocumented plus-addressing features (+) since early 2004. The plus-addressing features is mostly used for writing self notes, email filtering and mapping (google maps).

“Gmail never announce this features (beta forever) as there is no official documentation at Gmail Help Center.” — Anon [...]

Below is typical phishing email I received on Dec 8, 2007. It was send to one of my active gmail accounts.

The Email Header

From

“Gmail Team” <customercareteamalert4@gmail.com>

Subject

Gmail Warning!!!! Verify Your Gmail Account To Avoid Close.

Part of the message ↓

Dear member,

This message is from gmail message center to all gmail free account owners
and premium account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base and
e-mail account center. We are deleting all unused gmail account to create
more space for new accounts.

*To prevent your account from closing, you will have to verify it below so
that we will know that it’s a present used account.*

* CONFIRM YOUR IDENTITY. VERIFY YOUR FREE GMAIL ACCOUNT NOW !!! [...]

Recent update on Gmail has to many “Remote call” (AJAX) running (every 10secs) in the background. It will get really slow if you has a large numbers of email and spam. I’m suffering the dreaded “firefox freeze over” syndrome.

Below is a list of addons that will cause “firefox to freezeeeeeeek”.

• Firebug
• Noscripts.

Its advice to disabled both of this addons or revert gmail back to older versions.

uri code to revert gmail to older versions
http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1.

As gmail is getting more crappy with “overload features”. I think I should start using thunderbird more often.

p/s: At this time of writing Google Aps Gmail is still with older version so you wont have this issue.