>I just looked there and it seemed to stil have its files. Perhaps your
>FTP server is playing jokes on you.
No, he was right. The disk with the ftp file system broke yesterday
afternoon, recovered miraculously some time during the night, but is now
taken offline because of spurious I/O errors. DEC will install a new disk
some time today, then we will restore yesterday's data and hopefully be up
again without loss.
I tried to post that last night, but our news system is on the same machine
and somehow it was influenced by the problem, too.
Sorry!
Volker