WHOA, these reviews are off! hate to be unprofessional, but lycos email sucks horrifically...
It was my first web-based email after college, and I was proud of it at first... two years ago, after leaving my old job (and work email) I upgraded to the premium account, and again was proud of myself! I was wrong....
1) The spam filter is terrible, they seem happy with about a 50/50 block rate, and I used to think that was normal!
2) Terrible, infinite spam from people who have the lycos address list (i.e. people who mail to you, and a dozen names that are close to yours alphabetically, meaning the list has got out)
3) WORST: the account was OUT (completely) several times last year due to server problems ( a single server we were told), the worst for several days in a row... for anyone who might REALLY NEED a certain email or two (or all of them), this is unacceptable....
4) It is very slow, in EVERY aspect, and I have used it with the fastest connection speeds possible
5) The user functions are just not very good (when you send something, it takes you to a blank page saying ’’message sent’’, with a button allowing you to return to the inbox if you want.... what is the point of this? such a waste!)
To be honest, the worst problems are the previous outages and the spam....
but all the other problems I noticed after joinging my new email provider.... if you are like me you are gonna be wary, thinking I work for this new service, or wrote this all as a shill for them.... I would ask you to somehow trust me, that this is the first time I think I have ever even posted on a site like this, and I am doing it out of anger at lycos, and love of my new provider....
try https://fastmail.fm
You don’t HAVE to even have the .fm as your ending, but I do, cause I want the company to get bigger... the service is so unbelievably fast and efficient, I feel like I have been ripped off with with lycos (and yahoo, and hotmail, though yahoo is the best of those)....
I was wary at first, but it is the best computer/internet related decision I ever made.... check out the users who rave about it, we can’t ALL work for the company!! (in Australia I think!)....
Anyway, no to lycos, whoever you decide on, I think Yahoo is better....