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So, you've just caught your latest drop, and you've set up your domain at your favorite Registrar. Could be your registrar gives you what's often called a "global-email alias" automatically forwarding all e-mail to the domain towards your Administrative contact. Or, maybe your new hosting service has the "catch-all" e-mail setting on by default, and just after configuring your brand-new website... it begins... all the mailing lists and newsletters that the old owner has signed up for... is starting to come to YOU!
It's like if you've purchased a new house and the previous owner, a kind yet elderly woman who passed away months before, is still receiving mail (not like they can forward it to the local cemetary can they?) So, you're getting all of her magazines and bills... and... well... porn... porn as far as the eye can see, great big heaping piles of it... well, you get the picture.
Humor aside, apart from simply not using your catch-all on new/expired domains, has anyone come up with any ingenuous tactics for erasing the subsription "history" of an old domain name (at least from "cooperative" friendly sites) en masse?
It's amazing that no matter how long a domain is down, that e-mail will pick right back up and "bounces" be damned!
~ Nexus
It's like if you've purchased a new house and the previous owner, a kind yet elderly woman who passed away months before, is still receiving mail (not like they can forward it to the local cemetary can they?) So, you're getting all of her magazines and bills... and... well... porn... porn as far as the eye can see, great big heaping piles of it... well, you get the picture.
Humor aside, apart from simply not using your catch-all on new/expired domains, has anyone come up with any ingenuous tactics for erasing the subsription "history" of an old domain name (at least from "cooperative" friendly sites) en masse?
It's amazing that no matter how long a domain is down, that e-mail will pick right back up and "bounces" be damned!
~ Nexus