>For that last month or so, the speed of this system has become hideously slow at random times. Opening a message, previewing a message or posting message sometimes takes many minutes, and even then the action may not complete properly. While waiting for the click action to complete, you can't do anything else for fear of canceling the currently executing action. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to when the system reacts fast or when it turns into molasses.
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>Consequently, the system has now become almost unusable.

I have brought this up several times over the past couple of months and keep being told it must be in my system, or something that was fixed when the UT switched to SQL Server. I know it's neither because now when I hit a long delay on the UT, I open a new tab in Firefox and poke around the internet there with no delays. Others have also reported these sporadic slowdowns. Whatever it is, it must be a nasty bug because it still happens.