Lost and Found

My previous post was a lament of having been shut out of my loaded yahoo account. I'm glad that the rescue came in a way I couldn't believe.

I have had this hotmail account that I usually ceased to use for emails on account of 2 MB storage being too little. (They have improved the situation a bit now, they give 25 MB).

Recently I was introduced to a cool IM client called meebo.com, where one never needed to install any program for any of the popular IM such as yahoo, msn, aol and icq. I found this quite practical, therefore signed up, pulled my buddies from some IMs including msn. Out of curiosity I tried to sign into my hotmail account. It had been put in mothballs, therefore was re-activated.

Yesterday in desperation I looked into the newly-revived hotmail account, and, dang me if there wasn't a yahoo message sitting in the inbox, carrying a spare password! So that had been my alternate account.

Few lessons from this experience
ONE: don't dump an email address you've had for ages. It may save your noseskin sometime. It did mine.
TWO: registration time question should be answered truthfully, otherwise after year if the answer given was bogus, you ain't going to be resupplied a lost password.
THREE: If you own groups (yahoogroups, googlegroups etc) appoint one or more members to be moderators. It will not be doing justice to Internet communications if group cannot commence with activities just because only one person was holding the keys to run things
FOUR: Review your profiles every now and then: When it's February 29 (once every 4 years) or on your birthday, or, even better, during the long christmas public holidays (once per year). Some routine can also be built into yahoo calendar or google calendar to pop up reminder maybe after every six months.

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