Hi Guys,

I apologize in advance for the necessary cross-postings.

Following my surgery on 2005-12-21 I'm finally at a stage where I can 
sit to read and type again! :-)

To all who sent their best wishes for my recovery either via Kenn Yuill 
or on this group -- I'll be contacting you all via personal mail!

Following physical damage from 3 successive lightning strikes within a 
couple of minutes from as close as 30ft**, I lost my main Mail machine 
[and at least one other system's components].  Zip-Backup of universal 
[TB|Moz|IBMWB] Mozilla-tree dates from 2005-10-26, and oldest available 
via ISP server only goes back to 2005-11-27.

I'd appreciate it greatly if anyone running Moz-based mail on this group 
could _advise_ me whether they have a complete archive for this group 
covering that period. I'll then nominate a specific volunteer for the 
recovery.

Process would just be to create a convenient mail-folder in their 
mail-tree's local folders, copy all relevant os2hardware group messages 
into it - zip the contents of that folder and then verify with "zip -T 
\os2hw.zip" (the associated *.msf file won't be required), 
attach to my e-mail address and then delete that folder from the tree.

Good to be back - but I'll be behind for quite a while as I have 
thousands of messages to read/respond to - no chance of getting bored!

** Although my adjacent neighbours on both sides and opposite and 
behind, had their smoking power receptacles physically detached from the 
walls - I didn't even lose power - even the TV/VCRs'/Microwave oven's 
clocks [always finicky about any 240V power fluctuations] kept running 
on mains - lights never even flickered!

It wasn't until I actually went to power-up the systems in the "study" 
that I found out that there had been a "flash-back" down the ADSL line, 
which killed the Linksys AG041 Gateway/Router - power cycling resulted 
in a RED power-LED [hardware failure], LED is Yellow when good -- that 
was when I found out that the mains-powered multi-function phone had 
fried its hard-wired transformer, and the effect on a line-powered Telco 
handset was like not having the ADSL Central-splitter installed - 
squawk, squawk! :-(

 >From talking to the Telco Tech It appears that one of the strikes hit 
the RIM [Telco's CMUX box] in the street nearby and blew a lot of the 
underground connections en-route to this village!

Because the Linksys was connected to the 8-port switch that too was 
partially damaged as was the other system! :-(
Still could have been a lot worse. :-)

TIA

-- 
Regards,
Mike

Failed the exam for
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MCSE - Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert
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