- How often
- Every few weeks. Monthly is fine.
- How long
- A minute.
- What it prevents
- Holding an address that has quietly left the published set, which is the exact thing that later gets a new owner.
- If you skip it
- Nothing, until an address you saved stops working, or worse, starts working again.
- How you notice you stopped
- You cannot remember the last time you looked at the file.
What you are looking for
| What you find | What it means |
|---|---|
| Everything still listed | Nothing to do. Most months look like this. |
| A new address has appeared | A rotation is in progress. Add it and note the date. |
| One of yours is no longer listed | It has been retired. Delete it. |
| Everything has changed at once | Unusual. Slow down, check a second independent source before updating anything. |
Why rotations happen
Accumulated attention rather than anything going wrong. An address that has been public for a long time sits in every scraped list, archived post and abandoned directory, and a growing share of what reaches it is automated scanning and whatever flooding is aimed at it that week. At some point a fresh one serves people better than the familiar one does.
Where to compare against
A published list, and ideally more than one that are genuinely independent of each other. Three sites run by one person count as one source, and three that all copied a fourth also count as one. Agreement between lists is much weaker evidence than it looks, because copying is the default in this space.
None of that establishes that an address is genuine. It establishes what is currently in use, which is a different and more modest claim. The genuineness question belongs to the per session check.