Howdy Ingo :-) "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! :-) 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 :-)). > 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. > 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 :) Adios... Axel.