>>This is the first time in several weeks I have been able to access the Universal Thread...or your web site, for that matter. I kept running into problems accessing your site until just a few days ago. Are you aware of any problems on the Internet that have impeded access to your site?
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>Not at all, the Universal Thread has been up and running for a year and without any interruption since 35 days. You can verify that with the statistics which will get you all the messages for each day you want.
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>In March, there was a fiber optic failure at MCI and another major failure this fall somewhere else on the net which cut us from the world for a few hours but that was all.
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>But, there is at least one provider somewhere that had a bad configuration in his routing table which was pointing users elsewhere when wanting to access our site. But, after a while, that person told me that this was finally set.
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>I am not aware of any other failure.

I appreciate the info...I didn't realize there were so many different ways to mess up a connection. In any event, I haven't had any problems since, and hope to keep it that way, knock on wood.