Yahoo admits mangling e-mail (2002)
Tangent related to this. I had an old yahoo mail address from late 90s till mid 00s before I switched to gmail. Lots of family / high school / college / early professional emails were there.<p>The other month I logged in to view them as I do every so often and yahoo had purged the entire archive. Like 20MB worth of emails gone.<p>Apparently they have a policy if you do not log in in a year of time they will delete everything with no way to recover.<p>I can’t imagine the decision making to put this policy in nor could I ever imagine using yahoo email again for any purpose whatsoever.