Hi Tom, Yes, this happens to me from time to time, more particularly when email to the far East. I had occasion to use email to order techy things from taiwan and the emails regularly evaporated! Normally, I would get a reply next day from this source but when I enquired of them by phone, they wer adamant that they had replied by email but I never got it. Now maybe they were lying but I didn't think so. If you think your provider is at fault, you can test this by sending yourself an email. If it comes back to you in a few mins then your problem is further afield. Regards Aedan O'Meara. -----Original Message----- From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom Connole Sent: 01 May 2007 11:52 To: Paul Traynor Subject: [vip_students] e-mailsgetting lost in siber space. Hi List members, Can anyone tell me please if e-mails ever for anuy reason get lost in siber space? Thanks. Tom.