I knew this would soon be fixed and it was quite sooner than I expected. If you have closely followed the trend, anyone whom you mailed twice appeared in your contact list on the left side chat window. This made your chat window filled with even all those names with whom you would never chat. The result- an unorganised, cluttered and populated chat contact list. And as expected, it is FIXED. GMail Blog reports today that the automatic addition to contact list has been modified. The automatic contacts addition/update still works but on two levels viz. My Contacts and  Suggested Contacts.

What is the difference? My Contacts are the one added by you explicitly through invites,import,sync etc. This also includes frequently mailed email IDs (not as frequent as the previous one, this one now has a minimum of 5 emails. )

And well, Suggested Contacts is where GMail puts in all the auto-created contacts. The default settings are, that for frequent email-ed Suggested Contacts will be automatically shifted to My Contacts. But the settings can be altered. Through this, the usage based addition to My Contacts can be changed or even removed.

I’d say this one is a good change. Would definitely remove a lot of clutter on my contact list. At least I can tick one on the checklist now.