The Well known (or less known for some) Internet company Lycos\u00a0is shutting down its email portal service and web\u00a0hosting service Tripod, both services will be discontinued as of February 15 2009. Bellow is a copy of the emails being sent out!<\/p>\n
Email portal Service:<\/p>\n
Dear User,<\/p>\n
We regret to inform you that our parent company has decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Prior to this date, you may continue to log in to your e-mail account and receive and send mail as usual. After this date, however, we will close your account and delete all content and access authorizations stored with Lycos in relation to your e-mail account, in accordance with legal requirements.<\/p>\n
You will then no longer be able to receive or send e-mail under your e-mail address. The contents of your mailbox will also no longer be accessible. For this reason, we ask that you back up all important data from your Lycos e-mail account in the next few days and switch to another e-mail provider.<\/p>\n
Should you still be entitled to services for any additional paid options, we will of course reimburse the balance to the bank account you provided.<\/p>\n
We regret this measure and would like to thank you for the trust you have placed in us.<\/p>\n
Kind regards,<\/p>\n
Your LYCOS Mail Team<\/p>\n
Lycos UK Ltd., 35 Vine Street, London, EC3N 2AA, UK
\nregistered in ENGLAND AND WALES | Registration No. 03923511 | VAT number: 756796467<\/p>\nCopyright \u00a9 2009 Lycos, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
\nLycos\u00ae is a registered trademark of Lycos, Inc.<\/p>\nE-Mail: mail-support-uk@lycos-europe.com | Tel.: 0906 784 4 784 (1\u00a3\/min.)
\nhttp:\/\/www.lycos.co.uk<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnd Tripod Webhosting:<\/p>\n
Cancellation of your Tripod Account and your free Tripod Homepage<\/p>\n
Dear User,<\/p>\n
as announced on the 26th of November 2008 the portal and webhosting activities of the Lycos Europe GmbH will be discontinued. Unfortunately, the free hosting service Tripod is effected. For this reason we are hereby terminating your Tripod Account as of 15th February 2009.
\nUntil the 15th February you can use your Tripod account and your Homepage as usual. After this date we will close your account and delete all your content which was stored on Tripod in accordance with legal requirements.
\nAfter this date it will be \u00edmpossible to view your Homepage in the internet or to do a Backup using FTP from your page because the content will be unrecoverably deleted. That is why we advise you to to backup all necessary data in the near future from your Tripod Account on your hard drive and if wanted to upload it to another homepage provider.
\nPlease keep in mind that we do not offer any support for the free homepages neither by phone nor by email for upcoming questions. Because of this reason we created a short description how to backup your data.
\nWe regret having to take this step and we want to thank you for your confidence in the past.
\nCurrently, we are still working on finding a solution to provide you the service through another provider. If we should succeed in doing 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.
\nDespite the sad news we wish you and your family a successful 2009.<\/p>\nBest wishes,
\nYour Lycos Tripod Team
\nData Backup<\/p>\nAttention:
\nWe cannot guarantee and \/or take over liability for the correctness of this “How To”. For the case that you lose your data because of following this “How To” you cannot claim Lycos for damage. You are alone responsible for the backup of your data. Because of this reason please import \/ upload your data to your new Web space, test it extensively and check if really all relevant data were saved.<\/p>\nStep by Step “How To”:<\/p>\n
1. Create a folder, in which you want to save your data.<\/p>\n
Create a connection over a FTP-program:<\/p>\n
FTP-Server: ftp.members.lycos.co.uk<\/a>
\nUsername: Name of the site (f.e.: username)
\nPassword: Login Password of the site
\nConnection-Typ: passiv<\/p>\n2. Mark all dates, that you want to save and draw them into the folder which you have created in point 1.<\/p>\n
3. If you have data in your mySQL Database, you have to save it in an additional step. For this you have to login to www.tripod.lycos.co.uk<\/a> and click on the left on “online tools” and after that on “open PHP4U”. A popup will open. Please choose under the point “Dump”, “Structure and Data” and press then on “Send”. Then press “OK”. You will get a SQL File, which you can save on your Harddrive.<\/p>\n
4. Add-ons like Guestbooks, Polls, Statistices and Counters are not able to save and you have to save them manually, if you need that data.<\/p>\n
Lycos Support UK, 1 Stephen Street, London W1TAL, United Kingdom
\nregistered in ENGLAND AND WALES | Registration No. 03923511| VAT number: 756796467
\nE-Mail: tripod-uk-support@lycos-europe.com<\/a>
\nCopyright \u00a9 2008 Lycos, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Lycos@ is a registered trademark of Lycos, Inc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnd for any spanish readers out there, a copy in Spanish which I recieved a day before the UK one!<\/p>\n
Cancelaci\u00f3n de tu cuenta Tripod y de la p\u00e1gina web Tripod gratuita (15.01.2009)
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\nEstimado usuario:<\/p>\nComo ya anunci\u00f3 nuestra empresa el 26 de noviembre de 2008, lamentamos comunicarte que vamos a suspender algunas actividades comerciales de Lycos Europe GmbH. Entre estas actividades se encuentra el servicio de hosting gratuito Tripod. Por esta raz\u00f3n, te notificamos la cancelaci\u00f3n de tu cuenta Tripod con efecto a partir del 15-02-09.
\nHasta este d\u00eda podr\u00e1s seguir utilizando como de costumbre tu cuenta Tripod y tu p\u00e1gina web. A partir de esta fecha, cancelaremos tu cuenta y borraremos todos los contenidos y derechos de acceso relacionados con tu p\u00e1gina web que hayas guardado en tu cuenta Tripod tomando en consideraci\u00f3n las disposiciones legales vigentes. Desde ese momento ya no te ser\u00e1 posible ver tu p\u00e1gina web en Internet o hacer una copia de seguridad de la misma por FTP, ya que los contenidos se borrar\u00e1n de forma definitiva y no podr\u00e1n recuperarse. Por este motivo, te rogamos que guardes en los pr\u00f3ximos d\u00edas todos los datos importantes de tu cuenta Tripod y cambies a otro proveedor de p\u00e1ginas web.
\nPor favor, ten en cuenta que no podremos atender telef\u00f3nicamente o por correo electr\u00f3nico tus posibles preguntas relacionadas con las p\u00e1ginas web gratuitas. Hemos preparado para ti una peque\u00f1a gu\u00eda paso a paso (v\u00e9ase m\u00e1s abajo) para ayudarte a guardar tus datos.
\nSentimos tener que adoptar esta medida y te agradecemos la confianza depositada en nosotros.
\nActualmente estamos trabajando para encontrar la forma de proporcionarle el servicio mediante otro proveedor. A lo largo de las pr\u00f3ximas 4 semanas le informaremos en caso de \u00e9xito. Pero si esta posibilidad no se produjera, el servicio se dar\u00e1 por finalizado.
\nPese a estas desagradables noticias, te deseamos a ti y a los tuyos un buen comienzo de a\u00f1o y prosperidad para el 2009.<\/p>\nAtentamente,
\nEl equipo de Lycos Tripod
\nCopia de seguridad de datos<\/p>\nAtenci\u00f3n:
\nNo nos hacemos responsables de la exactitud de estas instrucciones. En el caso de que tus datos se pierdan por haber observado las mismas, no se podr\u00e1 reclamar ning\u00fan tipo de indemnizaci\u00f3n por da\u00f1os y perjuicios u otro tipo de reclamaciones a Lycos. T\u00fa eres el \u00fanico responsable de la copia de seguridad de tus datos. Por este motivo, te rogamos que vuelvas a copiar los datos guardados en tu nuevo sitio web y compruebes minuciosamente si se han copiado todos los datos importantes.<\/p>\nGu\u00eda paso a paso:<\/p>\n
1. Crea una carpeta en el ordenador para guardar posteriormente todos los datos de la copia de seguridad.<\/p>\n
2. Establece la conexi\u00f3n a trav\u00e9s del programa FTP:<\/p>\n
Servidor FTP: ftp.usuarios.lycos.es<\/a>
\nNombre de usuario: Nombre de la p\u00e1gina (p. ej.: nombre de usuario)
\nContrase\u00f1a: contrase\u00f1a de acceso a la p\u00e1gina
\nTipo de conexi\u00f3n: pasiva<\/p>\n3. Marca todos los datos que desees copiar y arr\u00e1stralos a la carpeta creada en el punto 1.<\/p>\n
4. En caso de que tengas datos en una base de datos mySQL, deber\u00e1s hacer una copia de seguridad de los mismos por separado. Para ello, entra en www.tripod.lycos.es<\/a>, haz clic a la izquierda en “Herramientas online” y, a continuaci\u00f3n, en “Abrir PHP4U”. Aparece una ventana emergente. Bajo “volcado esquema”, selecciona “Estructura y datos” y “Enviar”. Seguidamente, haz clic en “Siga”. Recibir\u00e1s un archivo SQL que deber\u00e1s guardar en tu disco duro.<\/p>\n
5. Los add-ons como libros de invitados, encuestas, estad\u00edsticas y contadores de usuarios no pueden guardarse y deber\u00e1n ser copiados a mano en caso de que los necesites.<\/p>\n
Lycos Support ES, Carl-Bertelsmann-Str. 29, 33332 G\u00fctersloh
\nInscrita en el Registro Mercantil de Madrid, Volumen 15.008, Secci\u00f5n 8a, Folio 130,
\nHoja M-250243, Inscripci\u00f3n 1\u00b2 | Pa\u00eds de registro: Espa\u00f1a | CIF: B-82.571.092
\nE-Mail: tripod-es-support@lycos-europe.com<\/a>
\nCopyright \u00a9 2008 Lycos, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Lycos@ is a registered trademark of Lycos, Inc.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Well known (or less known for some) Internet company Lycos\u00a0is shutting down its email portal service and web\u00a0hosting service Tripod, both services will be discontinued as of February 15 2009. Bellow is a copy of the emails being sent out! Email portal Service: Dear User, We regret to inform you that our parent company has decided to discontinue all<\/p>\n