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Lycos Europe have "decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities". This means a substantial chunk of their user-content sphere, including: | Lycos Europe have "decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities". This means a substantial chunk of their user-content sphere, including: | ||
[http://www.lycos.co.uk/info.html Death-warrant is here] | |||
* '''[http://www.lycos.co.uk/emailsms/ Email and SMS services]''' - see [http://mail.lycos.co.uk/] | * '''[http://www.lycos.co.uk/emailsms/ Email and SMS services]''' - see [http://mail.lycos.co.uk/] | ||
* Lycos Europe '''member pages''' (Tripod) - http://members.lycos.co.uk/* - Attempts to register now return the following dismal message: [http://www.lycos.co.uk/stopregistration.html] | * Lycos Europe '''member pages''' (Tripod) - http://members.lycos.co.uk/* - Attempts to register now return the following dismal message: [http://www.lycos.co.uk/stopregistration.html] - Deadline 28th Feb | ||
* '''[http://fotomania.lycos.de Fotomania]''' - Photo community (in some locales) | * '''[http://fotomania.lycos.de Fotomania]''' - Photo community (in some locales) | ||
* [http://iq.lycos.co.uk Lycos iQ] (Question/Answer community) - Deadline 25th Feb | |||
* [http://love.lycos.co.uk Love @ Lycos] (Dating) - Dead as of 15th Feb | |||
* Jubii.com holdings (apart from the original Danish portal, which seems to have been bought. [http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&u=http://www.business.dk/article/20090107/medier/90107112/&sl=auto&tl=en]) specifically: | * Jubii.com holdings (apart from the original Danish portal, which seems to have been bought. [http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&u=http://www.business.dk/article/20090107/medier/90107112/&sl=auto&tl=en]) specifically: | ||
::*'''[http://www.jubii.com/ Jubii email]''' | ::*'''[http://www.jubii.com/ Jubii email]''' | ||
::*'''[http://tv.jubii.co.uk/ Jubii TV]''' - videos | ::*'''[http://tv.jubii.co.uk/ Jubii TV]''' - videos | ||
::*'''[http://vdownload.jubii.com/ VDownload]''' servers - file storage | ::*'''[http://vdownload.jubii.com/ VDownload]''' servers - file storage | ||
".co.uk" used above for convenience, but the same goes for hosted content across seven or eight countries: UK (.co.uk), France (.fr), Germany (.de), Netherlands (.nl), Spain (.es), Italy (.it), Denmark (.dk), Switzerland (.ch) (?) or Austria (.at). | ".co.uk" used above for convenience, but the same goes for hosted content across seven or eight countries: UK (.co.uk), France (.fr), Germany (.de), Netherlands (.nl), Spain (.es), Italy (.it), Denmark (.dk), Switzerland (.ch) (?) or Austria (.at). | ||
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== Vital Signs == | == Vital Signs == | ||
On death row. Deadline: February | On death row. Deadline: February 28th 2009. | ||
== Who's Working On It? == | == Who's Working On It? == | ||
Teaspoon - is harvesting the sites listed in the UK | Teaspoon - is harvesting the sites listed in the UK directory. | ||
Please help: wget -i <pick a file> | Please help: wget -i <pick a file> | ||
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* [http://ermsays.net/lycos-es.txt Spain] | * [http://ermsays.net/lycos-es.txt Spain] | ||
* [http://ermsays.net/lycos-it.txt Italy] | * [http://ermsays.net/lycos-it.txt Italy] | ||
* [http://ermsays.net/lycos-fr.txt France] is really huge | * [http://ermsays.net/lycos-fr.txt France] is really huge | ||
* [http://ermsays.net/lycos-uk.txt UK] | * [http://ermsays.net/lycos-uk.txt UK] | ||
* [http://ermsays.net/lycos-dk.txt Denmark] is tiny, and archived (but the more copies the safer) | * [http://ermsays.net/lycos-dk.txt Denmark] is tiny, and archived (but the more copies the safer) | ||
Revision as of 20:37, 19 February 2009
Lycos Europe have "decided to discontinue all unprofitable activities". This means a substantial chunk of their user-content sphere, including:
- Email and SMS services - see [1]
- Lycos Europe member pages (Tripod) - http://members.lycos.co.uk/* - Attempts to register now return the following dismal message: [2] - Deadline 28th Feb
- Fotomania - Photo community (in some locales)
- Lycos iQ (Question/Answer community) - Deadline 25th Feb
- Love @ Lycos (Dating) - Dead as of 15th Feb
- Jubii.com holdings (apart from the original Danish portal, which seems to have been bought. [3]) specifically:
- Jubii email
- Jubii TV - videos
- VDownload servers - file storage
".co.uk" used above for convenience, but the same goes for hosted content across seven or eight countries: UK (.co.uk), France (.fr), Germany (.de), Netherlands (.nl), Spain (.es), Italy (.it), Denmark (.dk), Switzerland (.ch) (?) or Austria (.at).
This is AOL Hometown all over again, but now we have a few weeks to work with.
Tripod pages should be first priority: small files, high uniqueness. Then Jubii hosted files, if we can find them. Then Fotomania and Jubii TV.
Not much we can do for the emails. But a bit.
Backup Tools
- Email: Lycos are providing a software tool that communicates with their mail servers and downloads your stuff. Requires Outlook. [4]
- Jubii TV - Cunning use of wget will probably work.
- Hosted sites - wget, if you can figure out where to point it.
Vital Signs
On death row. Deadline: February 28th 2009.
Who's Working On It?
Teaspoon - is harvesting the sites listed in the UK directory.
Please help: wget -i <pick a file>