Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 14th November 2023, 2:14 PMI managed to recover an old email account that I have not used for 20 years.
A @btconnect email.
I left BT for Virgin at that time - they have never wiped that account and I have not paid a penny since then
I was looking for an old address.I noticed that a company called Richer Sounds have faithfully sent me an email every week since 2003 with their latest deals.
Sounds like a similar setup to AOL and the mailbox is separate to the billed subscription. My dad paid them for dialup internet connection on a BT line around 2001 and the whole family had individual AOL usernames to log in with which included our own mailbox. Dad moved away from AOL a few years later and has never returned for paid services but the mailboxes are still active and he still uses his.