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17 Mar 2018, 03:58 AM | #1 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: VA, USA
Posts: 2,789
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Lycos going down?
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What would you do if your email account was closed down and all your emails were deleted? This is the situation that users of the Lycos email service are apparently facing next month after Lycos decided to shut down all unprofitable activities. People need to realise that webmail accounts are only as safe as the companies running them. You don’t get any guarantees with a free service. Lycos is also closing down the Tripod web hosting service and will be deleting all the data and websites still using the system. Below is a copy of an email forwarded to us by a Lycos email user: Dear User, We regret to inform you that our parent company has decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities. One of the activities that will be discontinued is our E-mail business division. For this reason, we are hereby terminating your account as of 15 February 2009. Currently, we are still working on finding a solution to provide you the service through another provider. If we should succeed to do so, we will inform you within the next 4 weeks. But as this is currently doubtful, we would like to ask you to assume the end of the service |
17 Mar 2018, 04:02 AM | #2 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: EU
Posts: 4,945
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18 Mar 2018, 09:38 PM | #3 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: YouEssAey
Posts: 145
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Still works for me
Lycos webmail still works for me for more than 10 years
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19 Mar 2018, 12:31 AM | #4 |
Intergalactic Postmaster
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Irving, Texas
Posts: 8,929
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Lycos has been sold a few times. The current owner (Ybrant Digital, an India company) set up Ybrant Media Acquisition, Inc. in the US to purchase Lycos, but this company went in and out of bankruptcy due to problems paying the previous owner of Lycos (Daum Communications Corporation - now known as Kakao - in South Korea). After a few web searches on their legal problems and looking at their main email page (which has links such as What's the difference? and Guide to online security which do nothing), I would not trust them for my email.
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19 Mar 2018, 04:11 AM | #5 |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Sound Beach, N.Y.
Posts: 261
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That story was 9 years ago, Times have changed.
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