Old Hotmail New Trouble
I have a habit of signing up at most every social web site, blogging service, online email account offering, etc. There are many reasons that I use to justify this habit, generally the one at the top of the list is for ease of contact. For example, I registered Edward-[dot]-Caissie-{at}-GMail and Edward-[dot]-Caissie-{at}-live (dot com’s removed) to keep these accounts for my uses. I use them both, not as primary accounts but definitely for contact points.
This brings me to today’s post. LiveJournal recently sent out an email expressing a concern when using hotmail accounts, to quote:
… accessing lapsed Hotmail accounts that were used with LiveJournal accounts and publicly displayed on Profile pages in the past. You should be aware that Hotmail recycles email addresses that haven’t been used in more than a year. If you validated a Hotmail address for your journal and displayed it publicly in the past, but then let the address lapse, someone who finds and re-registers that address can use it to obtain control …
Personally, I had no idea that was Hotmail policy, but I believe this is an important point to share with those individuals that do hot have a LiveJournal account and who may not be aware of this.
Have you checked your hotmail recently? Do you know of other services that use similar policies? Leave a comment about them.
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