>I 'think' (don't laugh) that Piums problem, for
>now, may be caused by the 3 of us replying to the
>same messages in rapid fire order. I got some
>weird stuff too, waiting a few seconds, tired
>again & a message was waiting (etc), A few
>seconds can mean just that up to around 30
>seconds.

No, this is not related. The Universal Thread is built so every process is independent.