Re:Dead googlecode URLs on GitHub
by homero on Friday July 22, 2016 @05:41PM
(#12146967)
Do they still do it? That's horrific
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Re:Dead googlecode URLs on GitHub
by JeremyBanks on Friday July 22, 2016 @06:39PM
(#12147285)
Hotmail/Outlook used to(?) do this as well.
I had an account expire ~10 years ago. Somebody else registered the address and used it for several years, then eventually let it expire as well. Last year, I re-registered it, and used it to recover access to an account I created a long long time ago.