If i delete an email account, is my user ID available for someone else to use?

Answer 1

no yahoo is very slow about making them available to anyone else. it could be years. back before yahoo bought geocities turn around time on usernames was 30 days. not anymore.

★★ DELETE YOUR YAHOO! ACCOUNT ★★

◙ DELETE YOUR ENTIRE YAHOO & GEOCITIES ACCOUNT! This means your homepage, email account and all services you signed up for under your current Yahoo-id.

☞ http://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user

◙ TIP: By deleting this account you are only making it impossible to login to by you and other people. But it will still exist on their server until sometime in the future when they get around to deleting it. This has been known to take many years. Search Engines will still be able to find your homepage and images. All you can do is go to each search engine and have your link removed if they will let you. But there is no way to stop the search bots like Google and Altavista.

◙ WARNING!: Don't waste your time asking Yahoo to speed up the process of finally deleting your account off of their server. I deleted several accounts 6 years ago and I can still go to the homepages but I can't login. If you have something you want removed off of your homepages or in your email account you had better do it before you delete your account. there is no way to do this afterwards. Smart people delete all files in their homepage account and all emails from their email account before delting their account.

◙ See for yourself.

☞ http://www.geocities.com/free_webtools
☞ http://www.geocities.com/search_satellite
☞ http://www.geocities.com/javascript_snippets

◙ Also anything you put on the web for more than 48 hours will also be archived by the WebArchive's WayBack Machine. This tool archives the first few pages and some of the images of EVERY web site. They have taken this so far as to archive their own web site. I checked it out one day. :)

☞ http://web.archive.org/web/

Answer 2

Yes, because usually some sites have some kind of record for people that had made an account on their webpage if you delete your account the record usually stays but you an still make that same one again, unless someone else takes it.

Answer 3

Are we talking an ISP email addy or Yahoo or what?

Either way the answer is yes, but depending on who issued the account (ISP, Yahoo, etc) will determine the amount of time you have to "rescue" it and keep it yourself again.

Answer 4

Yes, he/she will just have to provide his/her personal information and choose a password - after your ISP has removed your information from that account. If you plan to open a new account, I suggest you hang onto the old one until you are sure you have notified all your friends of your new address.

Answer 5

yup

Answer 6

CAPITAL D-U-H!!