[jefftk]

> The respectful thing to do is to permanently erase the previous owners files without reading them.

We're not talking about accidentally getting someone's old hard drive: this is a public-facing website, the kind of thing people generally create because they want the public to be able to read what they've written.

[13of40]

It's not even that. When you buy a domain, it's not like you get control of the content it used to point to as well. There's nothing for OP to delete.

[jefftk]

Sorry, I was responding to the claim that it was disrespectful to read what the previous owner had posted

[mavhc]

can be if they used that domain as an email address to log into things

[herodotus]

Thanks for pointing this out: I got the mistaken impression that the OP had access to the previous owners files.