This is is very odd.
I've been on Adult Work for over ten years, and this has never happened before.
On Thursday I sent a message to a girl I know fairly well. Over the next few hours I checked several times to see if it had been read, and each time it was sitting safely in my list of sent e-mails. I even clicked on it a couple of times to check what I had written.
And then suddenly it had disappeared from my sent box.
It had, however, been safely sent, because in due course I received a reply.
Now there are only two possible reasons I can think of as to how a sent e-mail could disappear in this way:
1. I accidentally ticked the small box beside the e-mail in the list of sent e-mails, moved the cursor down, and clicked on "Delete selected", without knowing I had done so. This is as close to a total impossibility as can be conceived, not least because I never delete e-mails.
2. A hacker got into my computer – there was no-one else in the house during the period in question, so a "real person" can't have done it – and decided to delete the Adult Work e-mail I had most recently sent. Stranger things have happened, but it seems inherently somewhat improbable.
If anyone else has ever experienced a phantom deletion of this kind on Adult Work – or has a credible alternative theory – I would be pleased to know.
If not, this case is likely to remain for ever in the realms of "close to a total impossibility" and "inherently somewhat improbable".
