If going by the reasoning set forth before (see quotatin below) and that reasoning still holds, I am willing to wager that the blogger of planned obsolescence chose option 3.

04.09.06

http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/index.php?/weblog/comments/894/

I feel somewhat bad for having done this.  Probably I should just have deleted my email address, and not killed the account altogether.  But I’m beginning to think that her continuing email confusion is on some level intentional.  Who gets their own email address wrong, repeatedly, over such a protracted period of time?

Part of me, too, keeps having these moments of regret about foiling my own opportunities for watching this girl’s story unfold, for being, in a deeply voyeuristic way, well beyond that of the regular reader of any online diary, somehow party to the tale.

And then I think of the spam that this kid could no doubt generate for me, not to mention the general obnoxiousness of lurking in her various accounts, and figure that we’re all better off this way.