>>I did (for Firefox) but the message about a wrong certificate might have driven away people not used to your site. While I personally think going to Https is better (even if spooks will get the data IAC) not having a valid,costly certificate might scare off potential customers. Somewhat Catch 22...
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>The message they mentioned is the one for people who were already logged. The auto redirection is done automatically.

I am pretty certain chain of events was:

had read about UT and HTTPS while under account logged in for some time
could read other msgs
could not answer
surmized correlation wih HTTPS
closed the tab in FF
directly typed in https://unversalthread in new tab
then encountered the warning screen

regards

thomas