[insert screaming here]

And e-mail from CIT to its network admins

"Hi,
At 2:58am on 2/10/04 we experienced a system crash due to a filesystem problem with spool3 on Postoffice8. At 5:30am we determined that the filesystem was corrupt and not stable. We attempted to restore the filesystem from backups but by late morning we realized that it would not complete in a timely fashion. We have created a empty spool with the same mailboxes as before the crash but they are empty at this time. We are continuing to restore the filesystem from backups and Sun technical staff are on-site to attempt to recover as much data as possible from the failed filesystem. We regret to inform you that the restoration of mail from before the crash will take an extended amount time and we don't have an ETA for that restoration at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We will be contacting the affected users directly as well.

Jim Howell"

[insert my pained "I can't believe I lost all my e-mail" screaming, here]