Hi. A similar thing happened to me in May of this year, only it concerned a thread post that a number of folks recalled quite clearly. The circumstances of which were the topic of a previous thread on this forum, Searches limited to 500 posts (by name at least) http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread149888.html Ironically, that post also concerned spinal cord simulators, and was loaded with journal references.

But on the issue of PMs specifically, a funny thing happened soon after my thread went up. a well meaning mod contacted me with a suggestion, that was in fact something I had already tried. In thanking her, I mentioned that I had become aware of a particular firm - that I mentioned by name - which I understood was in business to police online discussions of its clients and their products, whose MO was to send a cease and desist letter to whoever host the site on which an offending message was placed, claiming [that's the operative word] that it was slanderous and demanding that it immediately be taken down on pain of litigation. (Not sure whether these demand letters come directly from the firm in question, or a large law firm on behalf of the client. I suspect it's the latter.) But I really knew very little about the area, have just received an online ABA-CLE announcement for a then upcoming program, Reputation Management in the Digital Age: How “Information Permanency” Affects the Way Businesses and Individuals Are Viewed by Others http://apps.americanbar.org/cle/programs/t11rmd1.html

The thing was, when I checked my PM box a few days later, both ends of the correspondence with the mod were gone. In-box and out-box.

And at that point I simply decided that discretion might be the better part of valor, and figured that there was nothing I could do about the situation. And for all I knew, even if corporate malefactors were behind it, it was entirely possible that NT was simply being hacked without it's knowledge. I mean, if you can build a super-doper WebCrawler, why not build one that could hack into password protected areas while you were at it? That said, I want to be perfectly clear that this paragraph constitutes nothing more than the rankest of conjecture.

The rest I stand by, even if I don't know what it means.

Mike