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Citing from Google‘s recent email on account inactivity: ”After a Google Account is deleted, the Gmail address for the deleted account cannot be used again when

Citing from Google‘s recent email on account inactivity: ”After a Google Account is deleted, the Gmail address for the deleted account cannot be used again when creating a new Google Account“

EwanToo 3y ago
That's good to know, though I'm skeptical for the future and it doesn't appear to be in the policy itself from my read through. They'll have to tackle email exhaustion eventually, and so far they don't seem interested in add new alternative domains.
foresterre 3y ago
For Fastmail, I could not quickly find their policy. However, I do occasionally receive some emails on my fastmail user address which are not my own, which may indicate that Fastmail user addresses become available after unsubscribing. The emails are from Steam, with 2FA login codes; I assume they only send those with prior email verification. With only the email address it is apparently not possible to contact Steam and tell them this is not my account (you need to login to contact support, or know a username). The danger here is that many websites (not just Steam) assume an email address is "forever", and the same address can not be used by anybody else.
- ncruces 3y ago
  I regularly receive emails sent to a person that enjoys using my email to subscribe to spam. I've also received stuff from another that used it for school and even their bank account. And if you think verification does it, someone used their phone number and my email to register to Uber. I'd receive all their invoices and stuff. I couldn't log in because that needed phone verification. And it took quite a few rounds of Uber tech support to get them to remove my email.
- anon____ 3y ago
  Unfortunately, Fastmail addresses are re-used "after a few weeks" the subscription ends. I lost mine like this. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000279581-Expired-subscriptions https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000279581-Ex...
- climb_stealth 3y ago
  Fastmail allows to reuse the email when an account is closed. Just before looking this up I tended to be very strongly pro fastmail. Have been using them for years as well. Now I'm not so sure anymore. Because reusing email addresses is quite sketchy :/ > Once an account has been deleted, the username and any addresses on the account can be re-used. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277342-Canceling-and-deleting-accounts https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277342-Ca...

Citing from Google‘s recent email on account inactivity: ”After a Google Account is deleted, the Gmail address for the deleted account cannot be used again when creating a new Google Account“

EwanToo 3y ago

That's good to know, though I'm skeptical for the future and it doesn't appear to be in the policy itself from my read through. They'll have to tackle email exhaustion eventually, and so far they don't seem interested in add new alternative domains.

foresterre 3y ago

For Fastmail, I could not quickly find their policy. However, I do occasionally receive some emails on my fastmail user address which are not my own, which may indicate that Fastmail user addresses become available after unsubscribing. The emails are from Steam, with 2FA login codes; I assume they only send those with prior email verification. With only the email address it is apparently not possible to contact Steam and tell them this is not my account (you need to login to contact support, or know a username). The danger here is that many websites (not just Steam) assume an email address is "forever", and the same address can not be used by anybody else.

ncruces 3y ago
I regularly receive emails sent to a person that enjoys using my email to subscribe to spam. I've also received stuff from another that used it for school and even their bank account. And if you think verification does it, someone used their phone number and my email to register to Uber. I'd receive all their invoices and stuff. I couldn't log in because that needed phone verification. And it took quite a few rounds of Uber tech support to get them to remove my email.
anon____ 3y ago
Unfortunately, Fastmail addresses are re-used "after a few weeks" the subscription ends. I lost mine like this. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000279581-Expired-subscriptions https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000279581-Ex...
climb_stealth 3y ago
Fastmail allows to reuse the email when an account is closed. Just before looking this up I tended to be very strongly pro fastmail. Have been using them for years as well. Now I'm not so sure anymore. Because reusing email addresses is quite sketchy :/ > Once an account has been deleted, the username and any addresses on the account can be re-used. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277342-Canceling-and-deleting-accounts https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277342-Ca...