http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/06/16/fading-personal-data/ Software, Agile Process and Security Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:48:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/06/16/fading-personal-data/comment-page-1/#comment-4647 Peter H. Coffin Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:07:21 +0000 http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=301#comment-4647 Random snippet sort of related to this: on a large scale, about 1% of email addresses go permanently bad per month for individual reasons, like the person has left the company, or they quit using the ISP, or they abandon an identity in favor of something else, or they quit using an address because they've no other resource handy to deal with the spam level. Another 0.25% to 0.5% or so go bad for organizational reasons: ISP/company bought by another finally stops forwarding addresses, or vanity domain is left to lapse, etc. Random snippet sort of related to this: on a large scale, about 1% of email addresses go permanently bad per month for individual reasons, like the person has left the company, or they quit using the ISP, or they abandon an identity in favor of something else, or they quit using an address because they’ve no other resource handy to deal with the spam level. Another 0.25% to 0.5% or so go bad for organizational reasons: ISP/company bought by another finally stops forwarding addresses, or vanity domain is left to lapse, etc.

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