Lycos going down?

sheprd · 17 Mar 2018, 03:58 AM

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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

janusz · 17 Mar 2018, 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by sheprd

we are hereby terminating your account as of 15 February 2009.

So the user needed 9 years to notice the service has been terminated??

philtec · 18 Mar 2018, 09:38 PM

Lycos webmail still works for me for more than 10 years

n5bb · 19 Mar 2018, 12:31 AM

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.

Bill

mf1941 · 19 Mar 2018, 04:11 AM

That story was 9 years ago, Times have changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod.com

17 Mar 2018, 03:58 AM	#1
sheprd The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: VA, USA Posts: 2,789	Lycos going down? ategy 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

18 Mar 2018, 09:38 PM	#3
philtec Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: YouEssAey Posts: 145	Still works for me Lycos webmail still works for me for more than 10 years

19 Mar 2018, 12:31 AM	#4
n5bb Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: May 2004 Location: Irving, Texas Posts: 8,925	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. Bill

19 Mar 2018, 04:11 AM	#5
mf1941 Essential Contributor Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Sound Beach, N.Y. Posts: 261	That story was 9 years ago, Times have changed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod.com