>>tries to con people into signing up to boost its user numbers I never understood this. As long as there is a infinite supply of free email accounts available

>>tries to con people into signing up to boost its user numbers I never understood this. As long as there is a infinite supply of free email accounts available. Any body who asks people to sign up merely to read content is just fooling themselves into thinking people are going to supply genuine email id's to read stuff. These days I keep a email id handy for purposes like these. Want me to sign up? Sure why not? But don't expect it to be the id which I use to do serious stuff.