Lycos Mail Bites the Dust
Through theemailwars.com, it’s been brought to my attention that Lycos Mail and its European counterpart, Jubii, are closing their doors come February 15th. Here’s a statement on Jubii’s site:
Dear User,
This service will remain available only until 15 February 2009. After this date, all accounts will be closed, and any stored content and access authorizations related to your e-mail account will be deleted in accordance with legal requirements. For this reason, we ask that you back up all important data from your Jubii e-mail account in the next few days and switch to another e-mail provider.
We regret this measure and would like to thank you for the trust you have placed in us.
Your Jubii Mail Team
Lycos’ statement can be found below:
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.
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.
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.
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.
We regret this measure and would like to thank you for the trust you have placed in us.
Kind regards,
Your LYCOS Mail Team
If you have any Lycos or Jubii addresses that you’re currently sending to, be sure to send them a message to change their preferences to a new email addresses. This will help retain the integrity of the addresses in your database and will help combat high bounce rates in the future.
Posted by MindComet on Jan. 20, 2009