Aargh!!!

[kennahijja]

My work email inbox has just Vanished everything but one single confirmation for a lecture course on the Hittites. I think I want to bash my head against something *very* hard.
hummelchen, if you mailed me, I never got to see anything!
I *do* keep my fingers crossed that it might be just a glitch, but I'm really sceptical about it.

Aargh, again!

Oh well, if it were my fandom mail account, I'd *really* go drown myself in the nearest duckpond...

Still... aargh!!!!

Comments

[eilanhp.livejournal.com]

Aargh, indeed! What e-mail service do you use and do you use POP3?

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

I've been using our university's Webmail when it happened, but trying with Outlook later on didn't help... I'm pretty sure we use IMAP, not POP3...

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Oh. I remember you telling me that your university mail rooms took forever to deliver mail and that is why a certain parcel took three weeks to reach you... It sounds to me as though some Univ. infrastructures could stand some reorganization.

Hittites? That sounds more up my alley than yours. At least, the connection with modern Ireland is somewhat tenuous...

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

*cough*
'Tenuous' might just about qualify for the understatement of the century...
And ancient history *would* be my alley if it wasn't even more breadless than what I'm already doing...

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Connection: Indo-European (Indogermanisch) languages. And I-E research - especially in the area of culture and mythology - is actually what I do. It does cover an awful lot of ground. Unfortunately, though the Hittites are the most ancient I-E grouping known, it seems fairly certain that they had suffered some sort of prehistoric displacement, and their culture has more in common with that of their Hurrian neighbours (non-I-E) than that of the common I-E past. However, apart from their own historical importance, they matter because it seems likely that it was through them that various Hurrian religious ideas reached the earliest Greeks, modifying their original I-E culture. Sorry if I'm repeating stuff you know already.

[eilanhp.livejournal.com]

If you used POP3 to check your mail during the last days you might have accidentally clicked the button that said to delete it on the server and store the main only on the computer, which was why I was asking.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

It would be just too ironic if I had finally discovered the *delete all* button by accident after wishing for it fervently for a year of cleaning out spam folders...