Have you ever been to a website that forces you to register your email address to proceed? If it’s not a site you are sure you will ever come back to or care about again, you risk receiving endless junk mail from them if you hand over your real address. I don’t appreciate junk mail. I doubt most people do. Let me share one of my secrets with you. Mailinator.com
Make up a fake mailinator address and register it with the not-so-sure site that you are visiting, then you can proceed at that site. If you need the mail that site sends you, go get it from mailinator. It’s not secure or anything so only use it for stuff you don’t care if the world sees. It’s a brilliantly simple tool, written by a sharp guy. His blog is interesting too, if you’re in to that kind of thing (and you obviously are).
– steve