FreeLists / openbeosstorage / [openbeosstorage] Re: Staying Connected

["Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > with a bit of luck I will have been successfully switched from 
> > analog 
> > phone to ISDN+DSL by tomorrow; with a bit more luck maybe even 
> > later 
> > today. Since I have no ISDN modem, I would have no chance to 
> > connect 
> > to 
> > the internet, if something went wrong with the DSL stuff. So please 
> > stay patient, in case I don't reply to mails in the next days. :-)
> 
> Welcome to the dark side! :-)

Er, not yet. ;-)

> And good luck, it all went good for me back then (though I didn't 
> switch from analog to ISDN, I still have an analog phone :-)).

Thanks.

> > On a related note, I managed to indeliberately delete all the 1600+
> >  
> > mails from my mail server -- it was as simple as deleting the POP 
> > lock 
> > file manually, after my DUN connection broke while fetching mails. 
> 
> Ouch! If you don't have a local copy, many (university) ISPs are 
> making 
> backups from those, perhaps they can recover them for you.

All mails that arrived prior to the last time I fetched mails before 
the incident (only a few hours earlier) are safely on my hard disk. And 
the new mails were to fresh for being backed up.

> > Among those were also some, I hadn't read. I found two new ones 
> > from 
> > Axel in the SK list archive -- to which I have nothing (at least 
> > nothing substantial ;-) to answer -- but off-list mails would be 
> > lost 
> > completely. Just in case...
> 
> Thanks for the note, I think I was lazy today, so there wasn't much 
> to 
> read from me :)

Unlike today. :-P

CU, Ingo