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Dead Internet Theory: How Yahoo Groups let unpaid owners and moderators build some of the web's largest discussion communities, and what disappeared when Yahoo purged the archives in 2019 and shut the service down in 2020.
Dead Internet Theory: A purchased mailing list transfers addresses, not necessarily permission: the buyer may know almost nothing about how each contact was collected, what was disclosed, or whether the recipient ever expected to hear from the buyer.
Dead Internet Theory: An old permission record can outlive the person or mailbox it originally described, making stale and recycled addresses a warning that consent is not permanently attached to a string of characters.