Yahoo Begins Recycling Abandoned E-mail Addresses
Yahoo is letting users put themselves on a waiting list for long-ago claimed email addresses, like john_smith@yahoo.com.
Yahoo is letting users put themselves on a waiting list for long-ago claimed email addresses, like john_smith@yahoo.com.
Before Gmail came along, Yahoo was the go-to email provider. Many users eventually migrated to Google or other providers, and not all shut down their Yahoo accounts.
Yahoo first announced last month that it would re-assign claimed email addresses that had not been used in over a year. Users can identify as many as five email addresses that they would like.
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