a rerout to reach an old newswire watcher rookie -- adress change for poetpiet's indymediasamples and other olds/news amounting to 60 MB intricately crafted and presented text) ---- Apparantly the click through rates on ads tacked onto my pages by free host lycos.nl were so low that not even my semi-large volume -- 300 google referrres a day, whereas their own stats indicated just a hand full just as consistently making me wonder if they don't start counting visitors till 10 minutes go by -- made up for it and they sent me a message 're: abuse', wherein some waffling about guaranteeing service and reason for discontinuance: 'wishes of webmaster'.

???

You wanne feel more conspirational about it? A suprising large number of (chinese) tripod lycos pages are blocked by china, in fact a ridiculous number of the sites listed as blocked on this page  http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/China-M.html are hosted by lycos tripod.

serious anti-semitism (the hostility to arabs variety) doesn't seem to appear to be a problem:  http://members.lycos.nl/whatsthisthen/links.html

looking for hits with 'zionism lycos.nl' almost all referrals are to my site

???

anyway, for now just use google caches while they last; try 'indymediasamples' if you haven't yet and lots of stuff can be found dropping this:
 http://members.lycos.nl/vadercats/logbriefer.htm
into this:
 http://www.archive.org

so long

it's been good to know you.

Ps: this address (for older stuff) is unaffected (as yet?), it certainly pulls less traffic (10.000 a month by their own stats):