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Yahoo could append a text header in the mail body reminding it's a recycled email so caution has to be taken and it should not be trusting it upfront. It adds i
by ldng 13y ago
Yahoo could append a text header in the mail body reminding it's a recycled email so caution has to be taken and it should not be trusting it upfront. It adds it to the first 10000 mails sent or the first 6 month whichever comes _last_
That will sufficiently annoying so that only people that really wants back their email and commit to it will stay.
It's not without flaws but it's a tad better than their current plan.
- nolok 13y agoWhile it could be somewhat a little better (or would it ? people tend to not pay attention to warnings like that) for emails sent from the "claimed" account, it wouldn't help at all alleviate the issue of email sent to the account.
- 14113 13y agoImho, the main problem with this is people gaining the accounts, then using them to reset account passwords for services that are not dormant. For example, I use a @msn.com password for my facebook - I haven't used that email address in years, and haven't checked it in months. If microsoft announced something similar tomorrow, I would be totally screwed unless I can access the msn.com address, as facebook doesn't allow you to change email addresses. This isn't a huge problem for me, as I try to keep up with tech news, but imagine that I'm not subscribed to hacker news, and don't realise what's about to happen to my account, in that case there's no possible way for me to rescue my email in time, and every account I've used it for is compromised.
- ams6110 13y agoFacebook doesn't allow you to change email addresses? Really? REALLY? That seems completely unbelievable.
- manojlds 13y agoThey are, in fact, doing that - http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/yahoo-email/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/yahoo-email/