Delete All Account Info

[Mark]

Ok,

I didn't like the way a gmail account was setup and I selected the
"Delete All Account Info" option. I understood that within 48 hours
the original address would be available again. However I found that it
was not. It is a unique name so I doubt anyone else picked it up.

Just wondering, do the accounts really become available again after
deletion?

[Derek]

i was under the impression that account usernames do get recycled..
but not in 48 hours.

[Scott Villarosa]

it's 3 months, isn't it?

[Derek]

i thought i heard it was 9? or maybe that was the amount of time
before an account went dorment?

[Scott Villarosa]

yar..... that's dormant.

[Cracell]

the problem with instant recycling is that you'd be getting somebody
elses mail that hadn't changed

while I doubt anything important would come, it would suck to open
your new email account in a couple of days and find tons of irrelvant
crap

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-Cracell
http://the-system-is-down.blogspot.com/ - Read it and comment

[Rguy84]

I thought I read on here that 6 months when it came dormant and 2 or 3
when it was recycled.