Yahoo is now recycling handles

Wed Sep 4 04:12:14 UTC 2013

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.