These issues are certainly nothing new. I had years of emails from the late 90s happily stored with Excite's webmail. Then, after one or another merger they in

These issues are certainly nothing new. I had years of emails from the late 90s happily stored with Excite's webmail. Then, after one or another merger they instituted a policy of deleting any account that had not been signed into within 90 days. I had moved on to using desktop pop3 mail, and that was that - they deleted all of my archived messages without any recourse or so much as an apology. I don't believe there had been any sort of export, download or backup option, either. I should have learned from that, but lo! Netscape did the same thing to me not long afterwards.