Another sentimental loss

The other day I de-activated my second oldest email account. It was my first Yahoo account, which actually was my very first webmail account. I've had it for 12 years, creating it when I did a stint in Munich as accessing my lab account (which remains my oldest existing account) that I used exclusively would have been very inconvenient. Webmail was sort of new at the time but the ability to access email from any browser anywhere made it compelling.

Well, back in its early days I was a little more promiscuous with its use (spam hadn't yet reached its peak). And it being that old, it made its way onto a LOT of spam lists. Eventually it was 99.99% spam, I could NOT find legit email on it easily. In fact, I learned some heartbreaking news of emails I missed for that very reason. It just got to the point where it was unusable due to the spam problem, and the Yahoo spam filter was loosing. I don't know why I kept it well past when I stopped using it. I simply don't. I even payed for the PoP access for years. Maybe because I had stuff attached to it, but that made no sense because I would never know. But now it's gone. Yet another part of the purge. It's just a bloody email account but for some reason I felt a little bit of loss. Now to get rid of the oldest account which is also nearly unusable... though I can see some small point in keeping it. I did try to get rid of it, but the sysadmin never removed it.