Try refreshing several times in rapid succession (to get new messages). Depending on the number of messages, and the number of advertisements (on the right), the button bar at the bottom may partially cover the advertisements.
This is more an inconvenience for your advertisers than for users like me...
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)