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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: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @08:10AM (1 child)
It gets even worse.
Many years ago, I was hired at a spam company. At the time there were something called SPF and Domain Keys, but they weren't widely used yet. Except for one thing: The number one most important thing when working at a spam company like the one I worked with was to ensure that all our spam mails always had both SPF records and domain key signatures, because then the big e-mail providers (i.e. Gmail and Hotmail) would value our spam HIGHER than real e-mail. The only e-mail we sent out that didn't have SPF and Domain Keys were the ones from the Exchange server, i.e. the actual business mail we sent to lawyers, accountants, etc.
On top of that, there was a company called Senderscore/Return Path (oh my, they still exist) that would provide early warnings when one of our IPs were about to be blocked by Hotmail. Usually between a couple of hours and a day before they blocked. I did they know? I don't know for sure, but they claimed to have some sort of deal with Microsoft, that allowed them to get the data straight from the Hotmail spam filtering system, so that they could inform spammers like us of when it was time to switch IP addresses. And no, that was not us abusing some kind of ISP cooperation facility, the communication we received from them was worded to make it clear that their purpose was to help spammers (I clearly remember the word "campaigns" used, as in "advertising campaigns", aka. SPAM).
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday July 07 2017, @10:46PM
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