Help, if anyone can!

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In news:730C18FE-6026-44C3-8C8C-C99AEAEA7450@microsoft.com,
Provigilken <Provigilken@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Hello, everybody. I need help, other than mental help now If it
> can go wrong, it will always happen to me. I know that windows keeps
> logs; and if a file is deleted, it's not actually deleted. These
> files, like programs and documents, are easy to find, and recover.
> However, I was talking to this girl in one of the chatrooms that yahoo
> messenger has. Well, on the darn properties, the conversations do get
> archived but they delete everytime yahoo messenger is closed....guess
> I should have checked that. Hopefully, they are still cached
> somewhere. What
> I did do was: I copied her email address, then I closed the window.
> With my wonderful luck, I went to paste the email address.....and low
> and behold, it didn't paste. I can't remember her dang email
> address....the part I remember, there are still thousand of
> combinations of addresses I would have to try. I searched yahoo
> directly, no luck.
> I feel like jumping off the bridge here in Memphis. I have never met
> such a perfect girl. Only one slight problem, when you look at the
> map of the flat world......I'm in the northwest
> part-Tennessee......and she's in the southeast part-Australia. I need
> help recovering her email somehow; if anyone can, I will be forever
> in your debt. Please, help me keep from going to the state mental
> institution.
> Any ideas, please email me at provigilken@yahoo.com.
>
> Thanks,
> Kenny

Open this:

C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\ypager.log

Scroll way down near the bottom... Root about in there and you may find
their username on Yahoo again.

Galen
--

"You know that a conjurer gets no credit when once he has explained his
trick; and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will
come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual after all."

Sherlock Holmes