RSS BotMicrosoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal
frogbellyratbone_ [e/em/eir, any]the wildest part of this is that the libreoffice dev still uses hotmail
like honestly, microsoft doing him a solid by getting him off it
dRLY [none/use name]Could be worse. Could have been an aol address.
Belly_Beanis [he/him]My mom’s primary e-mail account is AOL, which she actually pays for.
Back around the turn of the millennium (to make me sound aged and wise) I did AOL tech support. I ran into so many people that used AOL email as a storage medium. I received death threats from a guy that lost his doctor thesis work because he was storing it in chunks attached to AOL emails to himself. That isn’t even close to the dumbest thing I encountered in that ring of hell.
I feel you on that. I do PC repair currently and people that solely use email (in my case it is older Outlook folks) for keeping entirely too many records that can get wrecked. Never making an effort to have fall-backs if the data gets fucked. I will give them credit on really liking and using a program, but refuse to see me (or my younger co-workers) as anything less than filth if literally anything ever changes or breaks (especially after they themselves fucked-up their PC to the point of the shit no longer turning on). For all the “knowledge” of organizing their folders and contacts. They never ever take time to learn how to make sure they have correct exports/backups for those moments. And then there are the AOL Gold Desktop crowd that really freakout about that shit getting hosed (though they are much much fewer in numbers).