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But janet, those messages are AWOL, have gone missing, are there NOT. I have looked in every imaginable, and some unimaginable places. I personally feel it is a conspiracy involving the Internet Mail Daemon/Demon, some evil clown/clones, and perhaps a sock-eating washing machine. I know I'm tired and it's been a long week, but if you don't believe me, ask Barb M., because the same devious computer-dwelling entity has been cloning her E-mail! Carole H. --- janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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]> > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com