[165413] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ML)
Wed Sep 4 00:12:39 2013
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:12:14 -0400
From: ML <ml@kenweb.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 9/3/2013 11:57 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> Overall this is nothing new - Hotmail has been doing the same thing for
> years.
>
> Scott
>
When I used to use Hotmail - Your account was dropped after 30-60 days
of non-use.
Whereas Yahoo kept accounts active forever until recently.
Granted it's been >15 years since I've used a Hotmail account
regularly. Microsoft *may* change their policies more often than that.
