>What if Google took your 16 year old email address?
They can take my email address, I'm keeping my emails.
Got a mail client running on several machines for that reason. All hail IMAP.
Notifying all the people I've ever sent an email to of a new address is a quick task with an offline email client.
Changing the email address on all the accounts is a bit of a chore, but that goes with (as you rightfully say) not owning that email address.
Guess one of these days I'll run a mail server just for creating online accounts. It won't even need to send anything, so no worrying about aggressive spam filters. And it can auto-delete everything each day too without harm.
They can take my email address, I'm keeping my emails.
Got a mail client running on several machines for that reason. All hail IMAP.
Notifying all the people I've ever sent an email to of a new address is a quick task with an offline email client.
Changing the email address on all the accounts is a bit of a chore, but that goes with (as you rightfully say) not owning that email address.
Guess one of these days I'll run a mail server just for creating online accounts. It won't even need to send anything, so no worrying about aggressive spam filters. And it can auto-delete everything each day too without harm.