Prior to my hiatus, I had used the private ls exclusively. After my long hiatus, I attempted to relog into the Forest using all 3 of my accounts. At first, I figured I just had my account names wrong so the private login was coming up with no characters. However, I used the getlsinfo command and my email is still registered. When logging in through EQEmu, all is fine and all chars are there.
Doesn't affect me at all and I will continue to use the public ls, but might be useful for nailing down any issues. Let me know if you want me to test using the private ls again.