Vinny,

lol. Try downloading 10,000 messages like I did last fall after the tornado
in June, and after being absant from the loving email for almost 3 months.
lol. I had the same thing happen. I just chose to delete all the messages,
as I wasn't going to go through 10,000 messages. lol.

I'm glad you didn't have that many messages. lol.

Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson

At 10:23 PM 9/4/04, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>And you didn't even know I was gone.
>Well, five days ago, openbook corrupted my video drivers and the machine
>would keep rebooting and rebooting, so I couldn't use it.
>So I had to bring it in and get new drivers installed.
>Plus, I really learned a lesson.  At least on my machine, if you interrupt
>the receiving of messages, even though you have some of them, they will all
>keep sending again.  Last night when I brought the computer back, I had
>almost 800 messages.  So after I got five hundred of them, I disconnected,
>thinking I would wait till later in the night when the net was less busy.
>So here comes 500 more messages plus the other three hundred.  Besides all
>this, I the box in outlook express that says, "group Messages by
>Conversation" wouldn't work even though I had checked it.  So with all the
>lists I am on, I couldn't delete messages by topic.
>What a mess.
>Well I have read or deleted and gon through all 2000 messages or whatever it
>was.
>Now, hopefully to get on to normal email.
>Boy, a lot has happened on this list just in the last six days or so.
>Vinny