{"id":44487,"date":"2013-07-02T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=44487"},"modified":"2013-07-02T18:00:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T18:00:27","slug":"you-might-be-losing-your-yahoo-email-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/you-might-be-losing-your-yahoo-email-address\/","title":{"rendered":"You Might Be Losing Your Yahoo Email Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h4>You Might Be Losing Your Yahoo Email Address<\/h4>\n<p>By Leo Notenboom<\/p>\n<p><i><font SIZE=\"2\">Yahoo recently announced they will be releasing email addresses. What does that mean? Could you lose your email address?&#8211;PC Pitstop<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>As long as you\u2019ve logged in to your Yahoo! account recently, you don\u2019t need to worry about losing your Yahoo! email address. If you\u2019re not certain, go log into it now, and you can \u201creset the clock,\u201d so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m somewhat surprised that Yahoo! felt the need to make an announcement at all. I\u2019m also surprised that some people are upset by this plan.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s something that many providers have been doing all along.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s something that you should understand, even if you\u2019ve never touched a Yahoo! account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The lifespan of a free email account<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The best way to envision this is to look at the various steps an email account might go through:<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2022<\/b>The email account is created.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2022<\/b>It\u2019s used for some period of time.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2022<\/b>It stops being used. Quite literally, the account owner stops logging into it.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2022<\/b>It\u2019s at this point \u2013 when the account is no longer actively being used \u2013 that the free email providers begin to take action.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2022<\/b>After being completely unused for some period of time1, the account contents are removed. All email, contacts, and whatnot are deleted irrecoverably, and new messages destined for the account are discarded or rejected.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2022<\/b>After continuing to be completely unused for more time, the account is closed. This means that the account owner can no longer login to the account \u2013 because it\u2019s no longer his.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u2022<\/b>After some additional time, the account ID \u2013 typically the email address \u2013 is recycled and made available for re-use. 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