I'm very happy to say that apparently they succeded. I can read the messages in the old GOF without any trouble.
This is quite a relief for me for I have an almost exaggerated archivist's mind (there is hardly a mail I ever sent which I haven't saved). The old GOF lives.
Littlefoot-1616, you, and I were not the only ones at the old GOF by the way. Though we were (along with New Order) the most frequent posters others who are now here were there too. Weird Raptor for example and Jojo.