Deleting old LJ e-mail addresses
Of interest to those who no longer have control of a) the original address on their LJ accounts, b) those who have hotmail addresses associated with their LJ accounts that they no longer control...
It appears that you can now remove those addresses.
FYI, and get on that, folks.
(I had *three* addresses I no longer controlled on there, which are thankfully gone now. Apparently in 2002-2004 I was quite the web-based e-mail whore.)
ETA: It doesn't appear to be available to everyone, and as noted in comments below, this *does* leave open another huge security hole. So, I suppose, if you're able to remove inaccessible e-mail addresses from your account, do it while you can because the change might be rolled back.
It appears that you can now remove those addresses.
FYI, and get on that, folks.
(I had *three* addresses I no longer controlled on there, which are thankfully gone now. Apparently in 2002-2004 I was quite the web-based e-mail whore.)
ETA: It doesn't appear to be available to everyone, and as noted in comments below, this *does* leave open another huge security hole. So, I suppose, if you're able to remove inaccessible e-mail addresses from your account, do it while you can because the change might be rolled back.
Doesn't matter too much as I'll probably bedeleting that account soon. I don't use it.
That is actually very BAD news for anyone who has their accounts hacked into, since that is the only way to rescue it from someone changing passwords on it.
You can still have multiple addresses associated with your account -- I'm assuming the ultimate password reset will go to the oldest one.
Haha, and now you have me creeped out because I went to see if my oldest hotmail email had been reregistered and it has! Disturbing.
Yeah, seriously. I knew mine had been because I sent a test e-mail to it once and the person actually wrote back, LOL (okay, maybe they were dumb but still). But the yahoo address I registered the LJ account with -- no idea what happened to that one, all I know is that I couldn't access it. So I'm very glad to have those taken off my account because they were out of my control, whereas the other methods of accessing my account -- the three e-mail addresses I left on there, secret question, etc. I'm comfortable enough with that.
But oh yes, I will do backups.
Me, I'm just glad those ancient hotmail accounts are gone :/
IF your journal is hacked, I'm assuming you could go through LJ support if you had proof of ownership (i.e. if you had a paid account in the past with billing information attached to it) but honestly, it's still LJ we're talking about -- it's never going to be completely 100% secure. Backups are still the only way to go.
I ask because, with no account, I'm not even allowed to view the link.