Hello,
Anyone knows if GMail does recycle usernames or not? If not, why they don't? Would you think that GMail may recycle usernames when it gets out of beta? |
They don't. Trust me. I was emailing frequently with very high levels @ Google, corporate contacts, not the help desk; and it will not happen. |
The question is, will they ever get out of beta?! |
Brinke
Even if the email was mine, I'm ready to pay for it go get it back. |
Gmail should never recycle usernames because it could potentially cause serious security and privacy issues. |
But I can prove it's mine. Give them all of the contacts on that mail who did I mail, provide them with the content of some messages, the password, services I used along with gmail, etc... |
BTW, also see the following threads:
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 http://blogoscoped.com/forum/86304.html
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 http://blogoscoped.com/forum/88750.html#id88948
Friday, April 13, 2007 http://blogoscoped.com/forum/92144.html
And the following support articles:
<< To protect our users' privacy, we can't reveal any details about why a username is unavailable, nor can we restore or release usernames that have been deleted or become dormant. >>
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66278
<< If you don't log in to Gmail within three months of it being labeled dormant – or for nine consecutive months – Google may delete the address. >>
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6832 |
The funny thing about that last-quoted rule, Gmail's 9 months' no-access delay (or leeway?), equal to human gestation period, before an account gets deleted, is that that after-life'y timeframe has no name. Corpses decompose, ashes wither away; couldn't we at least be talking of "account ungestation"? ;-)) |
Believe me, I was emailing with people who would have the power to do so, and they won't. End of discussion. |