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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.
- 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
RFC 2282 - Internet Message Format
Technically, the plus sign operator is a standard URI protocol for handling Email address including telephone and fax (+tel, +fax ). This standard is maintained by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF Network Group) → RFC 2282 “Internet Official Protocol Standards - Internet Message Format”.
1. Gravatar Signup Process
The signup pages can be found at the following address ↓
- Normal Signup
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2. Gravatar Sign-up with Gmail Plus-addressing Features
- Gmail Forwarding
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Example of valid Gmail plus-sign-address code.
3. How Does It Work?
- Below is raw header received from Gravatar for billgates+mypwned.avatar@gmail.com.
Delivered-To: billgates@gmail.com Received: by 10.114.235.16 with SMTP id i16cs666570wah; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:13:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.247.14 with SMTP id u14mr17188447anh.1196668020044; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:13:40 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: fail (google.com: domain of support@gravatar.com does not designate 72.232.151.155 as permitted sender) client-ip=72.232.151.155; Received: by 10.36.223.23 with POP3 id v23mf1698886nzg; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:13:40 -0800 (PST) X-Gmail-Fetch-Info: billgates@gmail.com 1 smtp.gmail.com 995 billgates Delivered-To: billgates+mypwned.avatar@gmail.com Received: by 10.141.85.4 with SMTP id n4cs336075rvl; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:13:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.151.7.4 with SMTP id k4mr2609357ybi.1197368014852; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:13:34 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <support@gravatar.com> Received: from app1.dfw.gravatar.com (155.151.232.72.static.reverse.ltdomains.com [72.232.151.155]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id a13si6664003rnc.2007.12.11.02.13.34; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:13:34 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 72.232.151.155 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of support@gravatar.com) client-ip=72.232.151.155; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 72.232.151.155 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of support@gravatar.com) smtp.mail=support@gravatar.com Received: from gravatar.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by app1.dfw.gravatar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50EB08F36CA5 for <billgates+mypwned.avatar@gmail.com>; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:13:34 +0000 From: support@gravatar.com To: billgates+mypwned.avatar@gmail.com Message-Id: <475e62ce4f383_94b15911e666750191132@app1.dfw.gravatar.com.tmail> Subject: Welcome to Gravatar Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Welcome to gravatar! To activate your account, simply click on the link below or paste into the url field on your favorite browser: http://site.gravatar.com/activate/666aff604f5eba8025c1 When you visit the above page, you'll be able to set your password and create your first gravatar, all for free! If you have any questions about the system, feel free to contact us anytime at support@gravatar.com. Tom Werner Gravatar Founder
- When gmail received the email with the plus-addressing code it will split it up as follow
- billgates+mypwned.avatar@gmail.com
- login-name = billgates
- filter-name = mypwned.avatar
And Gmail will forward the email to the login-name@gmail.com → billgates@gmail.com.
- Below is raw header received from Gravatar for billgates+mypwned.avatar@gmail.com.
Where to start
Make sure you can received the plus-sign-address email. Try compose new email with the plus sign to yourself.
Example:
Well, assume that your email account is : leeeroyjenkins@gmail.com
So compose new email like so:From: leeeroyjenkins@gmail.com Send-To: leeeroyjenkins+selftest@gmail.com Subject: Hello world Message-Body: Over, Over, Do u read me.
That should be all. check the related links for further read on Gmail tips and documentations.
Extra notes
There is few special characters you can play with.
- Period . → billgates+all.your.base.belong.to.us@gmail.com
- Hypen - → billgates+chuck-norris-fans-club@gmail.com
- Asterisk *→ billgates+my*space@gmail.com
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lol lerooyjenkins is WOW myth XD
Nice huh, I like gravatar they have the most friendlier registration form. Good thing automattic has acquired it.
I think you should not play with billgates photos you know :x ...