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timcederman on Sept 3, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account

I abandoned my very short @yahoo.com address in the late 90s due to this. Maybe 1 out of 200 emails I received were actually for me.

TMWNN on Sept 3, 2020 [–]

I have a four-letter Yahoo account from the 1990s. I have never used the address anywhere. It gets lots and lots of spam.

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