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REMEMBER!!!

~ DISTRIBUTING any type of copyrighted files is ILLEGAL (unless, of course, you have permission to distribute the music from the author or the publisher). ~

Gmail is extremely handy if you want to send mp3 files to friends. It takes a while, but when Gmail is ready sending your mp3 message, it copies a version of your message to your sent items. This way, you can have all your mp3 files online, wherever you go, without any use of electronic equipment.

If you want to subscribe to a service using a Gmail account, you can use the plus addressing technique -- a modified name of your account that you use to keep track of that subscription. As an example, if your account is mario@gmail.com, and you want to subscribe to the newsletter "bestnewsletter", you can use the mario+bestnewsletter@gmail.com: the emails will still go to your mario@gmail.com account, but looking the "to:" field will you will have mario+bestnewsletter@gmail.com. This can then be used for a filter, and one can understand who is giving away the account to spammers.