gethan - 4:19 pm on Feb 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

About 400,000 e-mailboxes maintained by AltaVista will be closed March 31, the company said Tuesday. Only half of those e-mailboxes were actively used, AltaVista said.

That's 200,000 active users who are losing an email address that was "an e-mail address that will never change - even if you change ISPs". - (agreed rogerd)

The very least that altavista could do is forward mail for a year - but I'll be surprised if it shows that much consideration.

Not impressed with AV - yet again.