lycos: the new deal...

[cosmicgirlndc]

ok, guys...
here is the note Lycos sent to my e-mail yesterday. What do you say?
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Dear Lycos Free Internet Subscriber!

You've already heard that Lycos can no longer offer free Internet
access. Now Lycos has teamed up with People PC to provide Lycos
members with a special offer: 2 months free Internet service when you sign up for a year's membership to PeoplePC Online at $9.95/month. You get access to all the great Lycos services you already use, such as email and search and for just $9.95/month, you'll get on the Internet with reliable connection speeds up to 56k. PeoplePC even developed a special switching kit for Lycos members that will make it really easy for you to transfer your address book and all your bookmarks. And as a special offer to Lycos members, when you sign up for an annual PeoplePC Online membership, you get two months absolutely free!

Signing up is easy and only takes a few minutes. Get started
by clicking here:
 https://www.peoplepc.com/ppcos/startisp.asp?ProdCode=JWLYC000000A 
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it seems that all of these free-to-cheap providers will talk about anything except removing the banners. would you guys pay for this?

[clif]

juno has 10 dollar unlimited,infree has 8 dollar unlimited. Why try an unproven,untried cheap isp?

[drchaps]

hey chica in dc, your a little slow on the info. Lycos has had that offer since about the 15th of december.

[EG]

Hey Doc, we don't all get info at the same time. This Lycos e-mail is still interesting. Thanks Cosmic.

[Nightman]

Heck, Maryland Online Network has $8 a month internet if you pay a year upfront. No ad banners either. They even serve DC and Northern VA. Their address is  http://www.mdo.net .

[Cat]

Lycos bailed out like NBCi and AltaVista. They couldn't find another free ISP provider right away, so they went with ISP offers. What's stupid about these promotions for another ISP, is that we can get the offer regardless if we were with Lycos, AltaVista or NBCi. I always see or get these ISP promotions almost everyday. I get mad at AOL for wasting so much money on their stupid CD disks. I probably get three per month in the mail. NBCi, AltaVista and Lycos have given up offering free ISP, but not Freelane/Excite. Address.com is back, also. Some of the portals are getting their act together.

[cosmicgirlndc]

thanks for the link, nightman. very useful.
so, for those of us in the mid-atlantic, we still have maryland online(mdo.net), sailor.com, urbanlinklive.com, and joegalaxy, i believe.

[Damn Good Promo...]

This ISP has been around for a couple years... They cover most cities in the nation...


It will cost you 120$ for 12months + 2 free...

If that is too much then you are either out of a job or still breast feeding off your parents... That is cheap!!!

I will do it in March...for a good backup...


you have until 3/31/01