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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