I'm sure you're aware that this amount is something that you may regret a lot more that you didn't withdraw after a year or so (even earlier)... Anyway. We've all something to blame ourselves. I left a few BTCs in my Gox account hoping (!) it will be back in the future. I learned the hard way, I guess.

Yes, I had a good eye-roller when I noticed that. Life has a way of whipping blindingly by, huh?
And as for that email to Deep:
"Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
pool@deepbit.comTechnical details of permanent failure:
The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more at
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=7720[(0) deepbit.com. [162.255.119.129]:25: socket error]"
No surprise there. I'll have to investigate further. I have a strong intuition that he isn't really gone at all, and I daresay I know where to start looking.