i got a message, that on
http://web.archive.org/web/20011122144820/members.tripod.lycos.nl/grenze/gre
nze.htm
you can still find at least parts of the project.
hope, you will find as much as possible,
bye, chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "kahbeh2000" <kahbeh@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:32 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] bad news
> Dear border-friends,
>
> free of charge providers of web-space are a blessing (as it costs
> nothing) but can be a pain as
>
> well, as they have pop-up ads and sometimes tend to be off-air.
>
> Tripod used to work fine for me, yet after the merger and renaming
> into Lycos the service has
>
> been instable, and now it appears that Lycos has DELETED the
> contents of my side! 45 MB of
>
> pictures are GONE. Yes, you read correctly.
>
> I complained bitterly, but you guessed it: no reply. Yet in the
> members-discussion forum one can
>
> read (in Dutch) lots of similar scary stories, of innocent people
> who lost everything at Lycos.
>
> Lycos does not bother to put any explanation or statement on the
> main page of its portal, yet I
>
> learnt from other members who have lost everything this week as
> well, that apparently last
>
> Tuesday there was a fatal error in parts of Lycos Holland, Germany
> and some other areas. If the
>
> data can be recovered "they don't know" and probably don't care.
>
> Anyone who can suggest a reliable web-space host with fast server
> and at least 100 MB space incl.
>
> FTP access, pls, suggestions are more than welcome.
>
> I'm even considering to pay for the service, if it's ads and banner
> free.
>
> For the moment thus, it appears that everything is gone, and if this
> is the case, I'm afraid the
>
> site won't be back in its old format for a while.
>
> So, I'm sorry, no more European borders at the moment, unless a
> miracle happens. Small
>
> consolation, but can still offer my other site about the internal
> Belgian language border:
>
> http://linguisticborder.tiscaliweb.nl
>
> depressed regards/verdrietige groeten,
> Bernd
>
>
>
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