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.