I don't think so. I think either those blank messages were corrupted to begin with, the poster hit the post button before they typed in the message, or the post became corrupted during one of the board system updates such as a changeover from one board program to another--the messages didn't transfer correctly. In a message dated 9/14/2009 5:05:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, fiona.j.hall@btopenworld.com writes: Could that explain the 'empty messages' that are sometimes in the middle of a thread ? The post is still there but the message text is deleted Fiona