Are you kidding me? In our high-tech world with a mobile phone on every ear, instant messaging in the classroom, and Wi-Fi hotspots in McDonalds, you can’t even get your e-mail at your desktop computer? Lycos’ free Web mail and “Plus” services with extra storage have been unavailable to its users since Tuesday. I have two Lycos mail using friends who have since opened Yahoo accounts, because what is the point of having an e-mail account if you can’t send or receive messages from it. Apparently, according to my friend (now a recovering Lycos mail customer), Lycos users were warned Tuesday about temporary downtime due to maintenance. But something went amiss and now the company has fingers crossed that the service will be up by end of Friday. Something to do with the latest and greatest SoBig virus variant I could muster some compassion for. Maybe.Although Lycos’ U.S. presence has already been waning, and they have some solace to be found in their Spanish parent Terra Lycos, as far as technological credibility goes I think we can wave Lycos bye-bye. Really. E-mail is supposed to be the simple stuff. Even my Dad is on e-mail. But then again he’s not using Lycos. Technology Industry