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Originally Posted by pjroutledge

Agree, but if Google is deleting unused accounts, and the account id (email address, or whatever) consequently becomes available for re-use, could a criminal create a new account with the same id and do many bad things with it? …

Google has a policy of not recycling usernames, so that old email address is not available for re-use. See:
https://support.google.com/accounts/...21795109785-NC
… and:
https://support.google.com/mail/answ...233519696&rd=1

Bill