This is quite true of QWest. They only audit/purge discontinued
accounts every year or so. If you also have a domain name with your
account, it can be difficult to have it removed from their primary dns.
-t
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Kyle Faber wrote:
> > Normally I use Kmail on my Mandrake 8 system. But as a test, I
> > switched over to Outlook on my Windows 2K box. I discovered that I had
> > neglected to remove my "tv6" Qwest mail account. I also discovered, to my
> > great surprise, that I was receiving mail on that account - those missing
> > PLUG messages, and others I should have received, like some auto-responses
> > I got for submitting my website's URL to some search engines. These
> > messages appear to be coming through pop.phnx.qwest.net. How is this
> > possible? Could it be that Kmail's configuration is hosed, and Outlook is
> > just deceiving me? I haven't been paying Qwest's ISP fees, and I changed
> > my forwarded alias vaughn@nakota-software.com over to Getnet. So how can
> > they come through Qwest's POP?
>
> I don't know the answer to your main question, but I can offer this
> information. I have had more than 10 customers tell me that up to 12 months
> after cancelling and no longer paying Qwest, they continue to have the
> address work (most of them had said they would just leave the qwest account
> in their mail client until it started generating "you can't log in" errors,
> which it never has)
>
> So the short answer is, don't give Qwest too much credit when it comes to
> account auditing.
>
> Kyle Faber
> EMR Internet
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