retiring nics

i read on a forum some 1 asking if pal retire nics when they have been inactive and i got this email from them today about a nic i dont use

P.S. – if we don’t see you online in the next four weeks, we’ll be forced to retire your nickname. We have so many people joining each day that we need to save all of our nicknames for our active users. So please – let us see you soon.

so pal do now retire nics 😀