Sorry you lost your PM, Rabbit. Occasionally, when something like that happens, I've been able to get a post or PM back by using the Back button on my browser. It's far from a sure thing and depends a lot on the browser. Sometimes all I get is the blank form to type the post or PM into but at least once, I've gotten my text back by going into the form, right-clicking, and choosing Undo. One time I lost everything to a power outage, but an hour later when the power came back, Firefox gave me everything back, apparently from its cache.

I've lost enough posts (especially to older browsers) that whenever I'm working on something long, I periodically save it to a text file in something like Windows Notepad.

As far as I know, members with fewer than 3 posts can receive PMs from anyone. They just can't send them to anyone but the Community Support Team.