AAARGH! Stupid bald-headed technologist be insane! (that’s a Rollins reference, btw)
I switched email accounts a couple of years ago, from hotmail to gmail. I like gmail so much better— their spam filters are awesome, whereas the spam in the hotmail inbox was getting out of control. However (and there is always a however), the emails that the previous director sent re: the program document that is the subject of my dissertation were sent to my hotmail account. I still have the hotmail account, I just haven’t used it in forever. So, I thought, I’ll just log into the hotmail account, retrieve all the files I need, and be done.
Wrong. So, so wrong.
Hotmail has deleted EVERY EMAIL I EVER SAVED. They’ve actually deleted all my email from that account. True, most people don’t need access to email they haven’t seen in three or more years, BUT COME ON! Some of us DO need that email (say, because it is dissertation data). I know, I know, it’s my fault for not sticking to one email account. But just because I’ve broken up with hotmail doesn’t give it the right to throw away my stuff without so much as a courtesy phone call or email. Really, I’ve had ex-boyfriends who were more mature than this account. Gmail would never have done this to me.
Sigh. Off to see if the old director saves his 3-year old emails…
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