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Lycos Continues to Lose Relevance.
Apr. 24th, 2018 06:39 amA couple of days ago I found out thanks to slashdot that Lycos is killing off all their free email services on May 15th. It's a shame they didn't do something intelligent such as EMAILING all their free users about the warning. I know I didn't receive anything since the 9th when they originally posted the notice on one of their stupid never-looked-at blogs.
The tin-foil hatted man wants to say they're waiting until the last week before the deadline to send out an email to everyone. You know, cause a sudden "OMG WHAT DO I DO!!!! NO TIME!!!" panic and remind people that the paid premium accounts aren't going away so they can easily just upgrade to that for 19.95. I'll update if I see that email show up prior to the cut off, although obviously not going to wait to start moving things off.
I've been using them as my primary email for a couple decades now. In fact, I've been using them so long that I never actually signed up for Lycos despite having 3 lycos email accounts.
Lycos bought out mailcity, and converted my mailcity account into a lycos account.
Lycos bought out eudoramail, and converted my eudoramail account into a lycos account.
Lycos bought out angelfire, and created a lycos account for it. (I don't think I had an email with angelfire prior to that...)
But yeah. Either way, I now have a few weeks to move everything of importance off lycos and over to gmail.
This includes redirecting any online account I have that uses lycos for password changes/recovery. And there's several. (I just updated the email tied to dreamwidth before posting this.) Luckily for me my Steam, PSN, and Nintendo accounts are already on gmail.
Since I have about 3 weeks til the deadline at this point, I'm planning on moving things over a bit each day.
The tin-foil hatted man wants to say they're waiting until the last week before the deadline to send out an email to everyone. You know, cause a sudden "OMG WHAT DO I DO!!!! NO TIME!!!" panic and remind people that the paid premium accounts aren't going away so they can easily just upgrade to that for 19.95. I'll update if I see that email show up prior to the cut off, although obviously not going to wait to start moving things off.
I've been using them as my primary email for a couple decades now. In fact, I've been using them so long that I never actually signed up for Lycos despite having 3 lycos email accounts.
Lycos bought out mailcity, and converted my mailcity account into a lycos account.
Lycos bought out eudoramail, and converted my eudoramail account into a lycos account.
Lycos bought out angelfire, and created a lycos account for it. (I don't think I had an email with angelfire prior to that...)
But yeah. Either way, I now have a few weeks to move everything of importance off lycos and over to gmail.
This includes redirecting any online account I have that uses lycos for password changes/recovery. And there's several. (I just updated the email tied to dreamwidth before posting this.) Luckily for me my Steam, PSN, and Nintendo accounts are already on gmail.
Since I have about 3 weeks til the deadline at this point, I'm planning on moving things over a bit each day.
