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How Long Do Webmail Services Keep Your Account Alive?
Mashable! — ... of Service and quoted the most important parts of it. It’s important to notice the subtle differences in language. For example, Hotmail claims that after a period your emails “are deleted;” Gmail never says that, they claim that they “may delete” your emails. Also, keep in mind that we’ve heard of cases where accounts and/or emails weren’t deleted even after staying dormant for years, contrary to the terms of service. Yahoo Mail - 4 months. From Yahoo answers: ...

Another Way To Look At Terms Of Service Agreements: Wordle Visualizations
TechCrunch — ... get when you use a slick tool like Wordle (try it!) to run all the words used to make up the Terms of Service agreements of seven notable internet companies: cool visualizations that somewhat capture the essence of their content. Pointless? Very. Cool? Definitely. Here’s how Facebook’s Terms of Use agreement comes out (at least for now): Google (Terms of Service) Yahoo (Terms of Service) Digg (Terms of Use) ...