posted on March 18, 2001 06:20:11 PM new
First there was the Yahoo auction fiasco.
This week I had four four-year old web sites locked out by tripod.com for unknown and unspecified reasons. Of course, they don't feel I'm worthy enough to get an e-mail from them.
I started moving the remains to Geocities and went to repaste some Bravenet.com cut-and-paste codes, only to discover they forgot to include essential portions of the codes.
Tonight I see my images are not showing on eBay because Honesty.com is about to crash or something.
I'm beginning to think a lot of these www techs belong in institutions and not free to roam the cyber world making a mess of people's lives.
posted on March 20, 2001 01:47:36 AM new
More evidence that there needs to be more straight jackets in cyber space...
Monday March 19 5:59 PM ET
Lycos Shuts Down Some Web Sites
WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) - Web portal Lycos said Monday that it mistakenly shut down an unknown number of Web sites through its Tripod Web hosting service during the weekend while cutting off customers who violated their service agreement.
Lycos spokeswoman Dorianne Almann said the company regularly shuts down sites for prohibited member conduct, including threats to minors, stalking, and racially or ethnically offensive material.
She said a number of sites that did not violate the agreement were also mistakenly shut down, but would be restored within 24 to 48 hours.
``The pages that were removed on purpose were in direct violation,'' Almann said. But shutting down the other pages ``was definitely not something we did on purpose.''
Almann said sites operated through Lycos' Angelfire site may also have been affected. She said she did not know how many sites were affected.
Lycos, owned by Spanish conglomerate Terra Lycos, is the fourth most visited digital media property, with over 32 million unique visitors last month, according to research by Media Metrix.
