“What Exact Hosting appears to be offering is a mailbox recovery service rather than a mailbox continuation service.”
You don’t have to use it if it bothers you so much ...
My problem is that so many people had my lycos email as their contact that I’d like to know if someone is trying to reach me with important information. There was 30 years of contacts out there that have that email for me. I couldn’t even begin to guess who or how many.
If emails to that address aren’t being bounced back, that’s a problem.