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24 Feb 2019, 03:29 AM | #1 |
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Lycos pulled the plug on my 22+ year email....!
If you can believe it, after 22 years of having free email service with them they decided to charge for it. It's really amazing, as Lycos is such a forgotten relic (like Netscape,MySpace ect) from long ago to have the guts to capitalize on them holding your email use hostage is quite ridiculous. This really shows that you have to stick with the HUGE profitable providers like Google, Microsoft & Yahoo (Verizon) to make sure that they don't put the noose around your neck! When I first got their email, it was quite big if I recall. The only REALLY safe way is your own domain.
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24 Feb 2019, 04:25 AM | #2 |
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And Lycos are no doubt thinking, for 22+ years we've provided this guy with a free e-mail service, and now he won't pay???
This is not good!!! |
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25 Feb 2019, 06:31 AM | #4 |
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$20 a year is low for email, fastmail basic is $30 with less storage.
You still have 4 months to switch. Outlook and Gmail are your only long-term free options. Import your lycos mail using IMAP, and poll for new mail with IMAP (POP and forwarding not available). |
25 Feb 2019, 09:23 AM | #5 |
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I'm confused by this and other posts in this thread. According to the post below from last year, Lycos initially informed users they were discontinuing free accounts as of May 15, 2018. That's last year, not this year!
http://www.emaildiscussions.com/show...63&postcount=7 This Lycos help post from May 15 of last year restated the ending date as June 1, 2018: https://helpdesk.lycos.com/support/s...ee-service-faq Now (8 months later) a Lycos free email user is complaining about the account termination in June of last year. So either they haven't tried to use their account for 8 months (so I assume that it must not be a very important account) or this is a long-delayed complaint. The pricing comparison to other services (such as Fastmail) depends on the renewal term:
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Note: as n5bb pointed out, the fat lady has already sung on Lycos. |
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https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...WduRig6xHElf2w #62 is definitely a pet peeve of mine. |
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3 Mar 2019, 08:25 PM | #9 |
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I personally don't get peeved at free stuff going paid. I expect it! Seriously, I encounter these come-ons constantly. Look at cable TV packages, cell phone plans, connected car services, even restaurant giveaways. One joint down the street gives away free burgers when you buy one on a certain day, and I expect they find that it attracts people to come back for meals at other times. Should I be peeved when they stop offering free burgers?
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17 Mar 2019, 01:11 AM | #12 |
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Of course companies have the right to decide to charge you for services given free previously.
However, it's cheeeeeezey to decide to charge because they want to cash in on their users just like fastmail did. This makes the company not worthy of my business. That's my perspective! |
17 Mar 2019, 02:57 AM | #13 |
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Lycos has other ways to make money. Fastmail doesn't display ads. It seems unreasonable to expect a small email only business (Fastmail) to offer free email accounts forever when they are competing with much larger companies who have other sources of income.
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