CompuServe Messages

Let me preface this by saying I'm not the thread police. I did not molest your message. I do not make policy in this forum, nor are my comments an articulation of it. My comments are my own, so you are free to disagree with anything I say here. As a general rule, the forum management does not remove messages from the forum. They are moved to a private section, where the recipient can still read them, but other forum members cannot. When they do so, they most often tell the affected party the reason for the move. (I have not seen any messages of yours that were offensive enough to move.) There is another way a message can get removed from the board. Anyone can erase a message from or to them. The person with whom you were corresponding could have done this. I do not have the definitive list of forum guidelines for ASOFT. (There *are* guidelines concerning advertising in the file ADGUID.TXT.) If you check your CompuServe service agreement, you'll find a set of basic guidelines. You'll also find a clause which lets the service provider (Autodesk) modify these guidelines. In the absence of explicit modification, you can safely assume the CompuServe guidelines apply. (There are two very common guidelines which are enforced here — no profanity, and no personal attacks. If a person is even moderately intelligent, they can get their point across without resorting to these.) Hope you find out what happened.