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.
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.
Back when I ran nether.net as full scale public access, I would reap unused accounts 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 back then. - Jared