Does your ilxmail address still work?

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My ilxmail hasn't worked in years, possibly more than a decade. Does yours? Does it matter? Discuss here.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Yes, my ilxmail address works 36
No, my ilxmail doesn't work 22
I have no idea 15
Other (please elaborate) 3
I don't want you fuxxors emailing me so I won't say 1


underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Wednesday, 16 April 2025 15:45 (nine months ago)

voted "I have no idea". I suspect I am registered with a no longer valid e-mail address but don't know how to check this

silverfish, Wednesday, 16 April 2025 15:52 (nine months ago)

Just tried logging into the email address I registered with and apparently I no longer remember my password. Or there's some kind of fuckery afoot with Hotmail/Outlook. Could go either way.

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 16 April 2025 15:57 (nine months ago)

Still works.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 April 2025 16:02 (nine months ago)

Probably, send nudes to affirm

the babality of evil (wins), Wednesday, 16 April 2025 16:02 (nine months ago)

I tested this by clicking on my username under a post and then on "Send an Email to this User." It worked.

Brad C., Wednesday, 16 April 2025 16:03 (nine months ago)

I believe mine still works, though it goes to an all but totally dormant AOL address.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 April 2025 16:05 (nine months ago)

Nope

Jaq, Wednesday, 16 April 2025 16:19 (nine months ago)

no

five six seven, eight nine ten, begin (map), Wednesday, 16 April 2025 17:05 (nine months ago)

No - my ISP decided to shut down a load of email accounts that they had come into from a merger with a smaller ISP.

you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Wednesday, 16 April 2025 17:11 (nine months ago)

Yes.

clemenza, Wednesday, 16 April 2025 17:15 (nine months ago)

My ilxmail has been dead for well over a decade. For all I know other ilxors have been trying to use it reach me privately, but I rather doubt it. They seem happy enough to tell me things directly, publicly, and with generous helpings of salt.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 16 April 2025 18:41 (nine months ago)

yes, same email address i had in 2006 when i signed up

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 16 April 2025 19:00 (nine months ago)

When mine still worked, I mostly got cooking questions from non-registered users.

Jaq, Wednesday, 16 April 2025 19:33 (nine months ago)

It's a Gmail address, so it still works. I don't check it very often, though.

Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 16 April 2025 21:58 (nine months ago)

as long as Geocities is still in business, I should be good

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 16 April 2025 23:19 (nine months ago)

xxp to Jaq :0

sleeve, Wednesday, 16 April 2025 23:25 (nine months ago)

No

calstars, Wednesday, 16 April 2025 23:37 (nine months ago)

hell no. i pulled the plug on the domain circa 2009. logging in here is the last surviving purpose of that email address.

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 April 2025 00:02 (nine months ago)

i think so, the last ilxmail i got was in 2023

i feel better, i forgot how ilxmail works and i was wondering if i had email that i wasn't seeing

nope

also i didn't even register for ilx until 2011 so yeah it's pretty stable

Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 17 April 2025 00:05 (nine months ago)

My Lycos addresses went the way of all things years ago, including the one I used to log in here. However I did find this fascinating snippet when searching to see if the company still even exists:

The word "Lycos" is short for "Lycosidae", which is Latin for "wolf spider".

a death in the rhubarb triangle (Matt #2), Thursday, 17 April 2025 00:07 (nine months ago)

this thread made me realize that i have had my current personal email addresss for 20 years, which is pretty rad in a lot of ways.

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 17 April 2025 00:56 (nine months ago)

No idea. I got one anonymous ILX email years ago from someone wanting to know how I got my Chris Makepeace t-shirt. Never wrote back--again, anonymous--but I'm guessing this person found me via a search engine, and was not part of the community.

cryptosicko, Thursday, 17 April 2025 01:20 (nine months ago)

Lycos address lol

calstars, Thursday, 17 April 2025 01:24 (nine months ago)

1998 called

calstars, Thursday, 17 April 2025 01:24 (nine months ago)

For some reason I registered with a work email. I left that job in 2007 -- long enough ago that I no longer even have anxiety dreams about being back there

You're supposed to go to Heaven, ideally not Las Vegas (bernard snowy), Thursday, 17 April 2025 01:57 (nine months ago)

for now, but it’s almost full.

doe on a hill (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 17 April 2025 02:11 (nine months ago)

Better contact deflatormouse while you can!

calstars, Thursday, 17 April 2025 02:21 (nine months ago)

Yes.

Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 17 April 2025 11:25 (nine months ago)

Yes. I get them from time to time, most unfun one was someone backing me up on a point that I was definitely very wrong on and going into racism to do so, which really helped underline how wrong I was. I will usually try to reach out to someone privately if we’ve beefed and I want to apologise to them or even just to check in. I do wish we had a more formal dm system but obvs the site exists as it does etc.

triste et cassé (gyac), Thursday, 17 April 2025 11:39 (nine months ago)

No idea.

Nuts, whole hazelnuts (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 April 2025 11:40 (nine months ago)

No. My ilx email address hasn't worked since 2001. I first registered on ilx....slightly earlier that same year.

Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 17 April 2025 12:51 (nine months ago)

yes, afaik. last message I got was in 2020.

jaymc, Thursday, 17 April 2025 12:54 (nine months ago)

yes. iirc only one person has ever ilxmailed me: pomenitul wrote to me about a classical composer, which was really nice

rob, Thursday, 17 April 2025 12:58 (nine months ago)

When mine still worked, I mostly got cooking questions from non-registered users.

― Jaq, Wednesday, April 16, 2025 2:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is kind of cute of those unregistereds, imo.

I don't know why I hadn't thought to do so until starting this thread, but I sent an email to my login address just now and it bounced back. So, confirmed dead.

underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Thursday, 17 April 2025 13:02 (nine months ago)

yeah mine does. It's only ever been used once, when someone wanted me to send them my Amiga disks.

Ste, Thursday, 17 April 2025 13:11 (nine months ago)

Last one I got was like five years ago, please write to me

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 April 2025 13:32 (nine months ago)

I'll let Louis know.

Nuts, whole hazelnuts (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 April 2025 13:37 (nine months ago)

xp 🫡

triste et cassé (gyac), Thursday, 17 April 2025 13:50 (nine months ago)

I changed usernames 14 (?) years ago because I changed email addresses… mine still works.

sarahell, Thursday, 17 April 2025 23:30 (nine months ago)

I think I swapped usernames to something vaguely more anonymous but still obvious around the time I signed up for gmail. I should probably get off of gmail for reasons and come up with a new handle?

ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 17 April 2025 23:58 (nine months ago)

looks like I was an early adopter, gmail in June of '04

time flies when you're doing whatever the hell it is I have been doing for nearly 21 years?

ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 18 April 2025 00:13 (nine months ago)

Dead for about 17 years

The Last Air ETC (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 18 April 2025 00:46 (nine months ago)

well, enough about me

ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 18 April 2025 00:58 (nine months ago)

yes. it's all good as long as i own my domain.

mark e, Friday, 18 April 2025 08:21 (nine months ago)

No idea.

Do you not log in?

Nancy Makes Posts (sic), Friday, 18 April 2025 11:27 (nine months ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 22 April 2025 00:01 (nine months ago)

Someone got a hold of me via site in November of last year. I just got a hold of someone last month and they finally replied.

Works for me, both ways, as I use Gmail.

Bee OK, Tuesday, 22 April 2025 03:35 (nine months ago)

Mine is my gmail address also. Someone emailed me within the last couple of months

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 22 April 2025 06:29 (nine months ago)

Just tried and got poxy fuled

a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 22 April 2025 11:18 (nine months ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 00:01 (nine months ago)


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