Hi Zorah,

We've missed you as well. We're sorry for the difficulties you are dealing with at home (((Zorah)))

We're not sure as to the exact happenings as to why some posts and some threads are missing.

Our guess would be when a moderator removes a post sometimes the way the board is set up not only is the original post removed but also any posts responding to that original........something to do with how things thread. We are not speaking from any insider knowledge and we know next to nothing about how the posts/threads connect in the db here.

We have no information as to why or what but we're trying to restore what we've personally used this board for and what we knew to be a place of support.

Thanks for the note.

More than anything we're learning the importance of data backup if that data has meaning for us. We cannot rely upon others to maintain our own personal trove of helpful threads/posts. We've learned that printing out the posts and saving to Word doc. is one way. Also using any e-mail program with markup allows the smilies and pics to be saved too when you cut and paste a thread into the body of an e-mail message.

We never expect to lose what is ours but life is uncertain and there is but so much one can do to deal with uncertainty.

kindly,
__zh