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Originally Posted by TenFour
For some reason FM keeps email addresses active forever it seems. I was an early user of FM back in the day around 2004 or so but I thought I cancelled my account around 2006 or 2007. Then a couple of years ago I paid for a new FM account for the first time in close to 15 years and I asked if my old email address was still available. It was and it started receiving email instantly from old newsletters and such that I used to get back when I had the original account. I have no idea what happened to those emails during that 15 years, but apparently the address was working all that time.
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I suspect the emails were being silently discarded. While this is not always possible, the better email services try to silently discard messages to avoid giving potential spammers information about which email addresses are real and still active.