[165420] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Sep 4 06:26:03 2013
In-Reply-To: <5226B31E.4080903@kenweb.org>
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 06:25:50 -0400
To: "ml@kenweb.org" <ml@kenweb.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 4, 2013, at 12:12 AM, ML <ml@kenweb.org> wrote:
> On 9/3/2013 11:57 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
>> Overall this is nothing new - Hotmail has been doing the same thing for
>> years.
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>> Scott
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> When I used to use Hotmail - Your account was dropped after 30-60 days
> of non-use.
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> Whereas Yahoo kept accounts active forever until recently.
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> Granted it's been >15 years since I've used a Hotmail account
> regularly. Microsoft *may* change their policies more often than that.
Back when I ran nether.net as full scale public access, I would reap unused a=
ccounts after some period of time..l don't recall anymore as that was almost=
15+ years ago now. But one month seemed like the right number. I had almost=
100k accounts at most points... Was fairly crazy.
A least the Internet archive captured some of the cool stuff the users did b=
ack then.
- Jared=20=