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meteordustYour Yahoo! Mail account is no longer active.
Why is my account inactive?
Yahoo! Mail deactivated your mail account because:
* You have not logged into your mail account during the past four months; or
* You have requested that Yahoo! Mail deactivate your account.
What does this mean?
* All email messages, folders, attachments and preferences have been deleted and cannot be recovered.
* All messages sent to your Yahoo! Mail account are being returned to the sender.
* You can still use your Yahoo! ID to access other registered services on Yahoo!.
My Yahoo! account was my fandom account. My second oldest surviving email account, after my Hotmail one. I can't even remember how far back it went - six, seven, eight years? Long enough to accumulate a small mountain of emails that formed a mental photo album of those blissful times.
Saved messages from the succession of mailing lists I joined, with their humorous, insightful, or otherwise memorable exchanges. Correspondence with fellow fans, and the excitement of discovering someone else who liked RG Veda! or Zetsuai! or Gravitation! The joy of reaching out, and having others reaching back. Wonderful thank you notes from people who'd come across translations I'd done and took the time to write and express their appreciation. Tentative emails to writers whose work I admired. The thrill of receiving an actual reply! Later, feedback for my own efforts - and each and every time still bringing a spike of happiness. Some of these emails, at least, I printed out and kept. I am thankful, so thankful, for this.
Time passed. Other things started eating up my days. In the last year or two, I grew to checking my Yahoo! account less and less often. But - four months? Seriously? I didn't realise. My own damn fault, and I should be kicking myself for my stupidity, but all I can feel is a kind of numb resignation.
I don't even know if I can mentally reconstruct what I had - the people in my address book, the names of my saved messages folders, the mailing lists I was subscribed to. You might say that if I can't even remember what was there, am I really going to miss it? But that was the point. I didn't have to remember it all, because I could always go back and look it up again. But now a huge chunk of my memories is just gone.
I guess this is how people feel when their hard drives blow up.
I've just gone and reactivated my account now. It breaks my heart to see all those empty, empty folders.
Why is my account inactive?
Yahoo! Mail deactivated your mail account because:
* You have not logged into your mail account during the past four months; or
* You have requested that Yahoo! Mail deactivate your account.
What does this mean?
* All email messages, folders, attachments and preferences have been deleted and cannot be recovered.
* All messages sent to your Yahoo! Mail account are being returned to the sender.
* You can still use your Yahoo! ID to access other registered services on Yahoo!.
My Yahoo! account was my fandom account. My second oldest surviving email account, after my Hotmail one. I can't even remember how far back it went - six, seven, eight years? Long enough to accumulate a small mountain of emails that formed a mental photo album of those blissful times.
Saved messages from the succession of mailing lists I joined, with their humorous, insightful, or otherwise memorable exchanges. Correspondence with fellow fans, and the excitement of discovering someone else who liked RG Veda! or Zetsuai! or Gravitation! The joy of reaching out, and having others reaching back. Wonderful thank you notes from people who'd come across translations I'd done and took the time to write and express their appreciation. Tentative emails to writers whose work I admired. The thrill of receiving an actual reply! Later, feedback for my own efforts - and each and every time still bringing a spike of happiness. Some of these emails, at least, I printed out and kept. I am thankful, so thankful, for this.
Time passed. Other things started eating up my days. In the last year or two, I grew to checking my Yahoo! account less and less often. But - four months? Seriously? I didn't realise. My own damn fault, and I should be kicking myself for my stupidity, but all I can feel is a kind of numb resignation.
I don't even know if I can mentally reconstruct what I had - the people in my address book, the names of my saved messages folders, the mailing lists I was subscribed to. You might say that if I can't even remember what was there, am I really going to miss it? But that was the point. I didn't have to remember it all, because I could always go back and look it up again. But now a huge chunk of my memories is just gone.
I guess this is how people feel when their hard drives blow up.
I've just gone and reactivated my account now. It breaks my heart to see all those empty, empty folders.
