Bandwidth bills are not going to go to Lycos unless Lycos is hosting the websites...a highly unlikely scenario as it would make no sense whatsoever for a webhost to shut down the websites of their clients. (Imagine McDonald's combating obesity by closing their restaurants...make sense?)
Spammers have websites with Hosting Company A. Lycos is a portal site, like Yahoo. They're completely unrelated. They've never even met each other. To say that Lycos would profit from this venture is ridiculous.