BG> Actually, it wasn't a crash, but the actual theft on one of the main
BG> feed's PC that really stuffed up my mail for over a week up here.

RS> Yeah, I realised that and just didnt bother to spell out all the
RS> detail. I just meant that mail can get lost forever when a machine
RS> disappears. Usually thats a machine crash or a drive crash, but you
RS> get exactly the same result on the mail if the machine gets nicked.

BG> With the main disadvantage that if the system is nicked, there's
BG> almost no chance of recovering the software which was on it.  At
BG> least with a HD crash, you have some vestige of a chance.

Well, a well run system has backups, off site backups for the vital stuff
too. For just that problem |-)

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