RS> for a while, bye bye some mail. Same for the machine crash situation
RS> that Bill was talking about, presumably some mail just went forever.

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.

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

BG> Looks like when he finally replaced his system, his uplink hadn't
BG> kept packets for him (dunno why),

Jeeze thats pretty fucked. Maybe he just didnt have enough space and
didnt have much choice.

BG> and a whole week's worth of mail just disappeared forever

Thats unspeakable, some of those would have been mine |-)

BG> (including a fucking lot of my own replies as well).  :-(

Well, those dont matter a damn |-)

Which particular node went out under someones arm ?

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