The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports:
A Halifax [Nova Scotia] man is facing the daunting task of going through almost two decades of email messages after his email provider served notice it was deactivating his account in 30 days because of his email address: noreply@eastlink.ca
"I had it since the late '90s, probably 1998 when I really started getting online," Steve Morshead told CBC News.
"I asked for it, it was available and they gave it to me without hesitation."
He said he picked the handle "noreply" because he wanted an unusual address--and back in the '90s, it was.
Morshead never expected to lose his email address, which he uses for communicating with everyone from friends to banks to lawyers. He is in the process of selling his home and says this couldn't come at a worse time.
[...] "Now, after all these years, 20 years almost, I find it reprehensible they want to pop out of bushes and just give me 30 days to go through 20 years worth of emails and decide what I want to keep," he said.
[...] Morshead did ask the company to transfer the contents from the existing email account to a new one but they said no.
"Just flat no. No offers of help. Just the bullying that 'We're going to do it, you're going to take it. That's it.'"
Also at The Inquirer.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday July 07 2017, @04:16PM
Have fun when your domain is seized for arbitrary regulatory violation
Such as? It's not going to happen.
And you have to convince all the big boys that you're not a fly-by-night spammer.
Nonsense, I've had domains for years and never got any email problems. Period.
And you still have to pay your hosting bills and avoid nasty disagreements with whichever hosting provider you choose.
You can't afford fifteen bucks a YEAR? You can have your own email address that will firward itself to your Gmail account. And in almost two decades I've never had the tiniest bit of trouble with Register4less. I highly recommend them. There are certainly others as good out there, too.
I can't figure out if the AC is ignorant, trolling, or works for Google.
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