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hi all At 17:41 1999/09/22 -0700, carole wrote: >Hi All: I just have one more question for you guys and >then I'll put myself quietly to bed. And bear in mind >that I was computer-illiterate until this summer. My >E-mail program stacks incoming E-mail in stacks of 25 >on a page. Sometimes, when I have a lot of mail, I >flip from page to page, depending on what I want to >look at first. But when I try to return to a previous >page, I'll find some or all of the unread mail has >disappeared! WHERE DOES IT GO? (It's not in the >trash-or any other folder. I've looked.) Is there an >answer? Or is it one of those great mysteries of life, >like what happens to socks in dryers. Or are we back >to the Mail demon, our friend, "IT"? BTW, this is a >(mostly)serious question. > Carole H. hi co-amazonian-carole yahoo should be able to advise you every e-mail software program has its own idiosyncracies despite 'windows' standards and 'e-mail' standards etc etc it sounds like your e-mailer may be sorting your mail into if not 'read' and 'unread' maybe 'browsed' and 'unbrowsed' the 'read' and 'unread' feature threw me off the scent for awhile when i was a newbie to aol even though i was a quasi-nerd if you have only scanned the subject headers and haven't actually read the messages yet they should still be there somewhere and congratulations on taking the first big step into the ether just this summer! talk about jumping into the deep end! janet ps the internet daemon is archie's evil uncle janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset 613 256 8340 po box 171 almonte ontario canada K0A 1A0 a new voice: <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> <[log in to unmask]>