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E-mail Accounts
In the past I've made tons of e-mail addresses. Is it true after a while they will be deleted in the database? For example...Yahoo. I have 2 forgotten ID's that Yahoo sent me. Is there a way people can find my personal information like address? I haven't logged in them for years...one was from 2006. What about AIM, GMAIL, and Hotmail?
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Hotmail/live deletes your account if you don't log in for a year. Gmail and AIM after 90 days. Yahoo after 120 days.
You don't need to actually log into the site. Logging into Live messenger, AIM, Gtalk, YIM resets the timer.
If your account was deleted due to inactivity, you can recreate it. After you recreate the account, you'll continue to receive mail sent to it, though you can't get your old mail back.
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This is called net-rot, as in old accounts decaying from lack of use. Yes, most membership sites have some feature to prune old accounts from users that no longer take care of accounts they have made.
The time limit typically varies from 30 days of inactivity to one year.
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