I've seen ISPs do things I never thought would happen, such as the loss of AOL and Geocities web pages. I'm concerned about the AOL mail presently saved on our computers. The saved mail is a proprietary format, and how will they be read when AoL no longer provides software to run it. Even the AOL mail currently saved on our computers becomes "That mail is no longer available", and the forwarded parts of forwards have disappeared. Seems that one has better luck preserving AOL mail in its complete form if left (saved) on AOL, as they don't disappear as much. I've searched and bought something that will convert AoL mail to DBX files (used on OE), something called ePreserver, available from _http://www.connectedsw.com/_ (http://www.connectedsw.com/) for $24.95. I've used it and it works pretty well, with exceptions for some attachments. I learned the hard way to create a new account on my Outlook Express and have that account open during conversion, as that where the AOL files go, so the AoL e-mail is not intermixed with my other Outlook Express e-mail. I had a time separating the AOL mail to new OE folders. I did find that after converting the old AOL mail to OE, I could find e-mails much faster using OE's "search" features. Woody ===================== JYoung6180@aol.com writes: I suspect it may or else we'll be downloading mail to Windows Mail or another stand-alone email client eventually--just like everyone else does. One of the features I always LIKED about AOL was their email system as it always seemed safer to me--not downloading attachments unless you specifically wanted to download them. Joan PS: They have already taken the step of adding headers to internal AOL mail and making the mail system a bit more compliant with Internet standard. In a message dated 2/12/2010 2:56:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, nlpakkala@aol.com writes: Joan, I sure hope that doesn't happen! Nancy