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Jesse Powell
@jespow
wow wtf? That's horrible. It is a massive security problem to release email addresses to be taken over by other owners. If you run an email service, you have to make addresses permanent, even if people don't seem to be active. Charge up front if you don't want squatting.
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alex botteri
@alex_botteri
Indeed. And the inactivity excuse is ... BS. I received hundreds of emails on that address, mainly by senders mistakes as the alias was very common: alex@. Still, the Protonmail team had no way to know that.
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Proton
@ProtonPrivacy
Paid accounts are not subject to the inactivity rule. In general, we are not enforcing the inactivity (no login) rule, but we do reserve the right to enforce this in our terms and conditions. Most services actually do remove inactive, non-paid accounts. We try not to.
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Jesse Powell
@jespow
Such a rule means you have to pay for eternity because you can’t afford the consequences of someone else taking over your name when you can no longer afford it or change service providers. Should be if ever paid, never reassign the name.
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Jesse Powell
@jespow
I agree, which is why those vanity names should be auctioned off or have a steep up front purchase price. Unless it’s an email I’m giving out regularly to strangers, I prefer something longer and unguessable for spam control, anyway.
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