E-mail address turn over
An interesting article on wired.
A survey on e-mail churn found that merchants lose half of their online relationships with customers when those customers change e-mail addresses when they change jobs, switch ISPs or when their inboxes become too stuffed with spam.
I've had the same e-mail address for hm, 6 years or so. Acutally, I'm cheating, it's just an acm forward to whatever my current address happens to be. Things to do: renew my ACM membership before they cancel my forward.
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It's actually kinda funny. My dad first used Prodigy, then SNET. Then we got something else through his work. We decided December last year to upgrade to SNET DSL. At that point SBC, SNET, and Prodigy had merged. He got the same e-mail addy he used to have when he had SNET. He had tons of backmail...
Posted by: Techie2000 | November 16, 2002 03:41 PM
Ha! I used the same hotmail address for about as many years as hotmail has been around (Hotmail wasn't always owned my MS, kids..). I was doing good, and then one day, it happend. Over 100 messages an HOUR! No joke. My mailbox was full (2 meg limit?) every 8 hours. Sadly.. i had to retire it. :(
Posted by: MasterRa | November 26, 2002 05:11 PM