>Michel,
>
>Sorry to be using this message for what follows, but I have *NO* icons on the left to create a new message (nor any other icons for anything else).
>
>It appears that you are "fiddling" with UT today. Assuming that you are, let me tell you that things look pretty bad from this end.
>1) earlier today (3 times an hour apart each) there was no connection at all.
>2) This time, with the Java (I guess) message flitting by I found myself 'entering Universal Thread' 4 times before it "took"
>3) As mentioned above, *NO* icons at all on the left

Most of Quebec province were out of the net today since 12h00 EDT. Our World leading provider, UUNET, had a severe breakdown. More detail will be posted in the Latest news document later on today.

As for the icons, I don't have any idea about this situation. This is the first report I have on this one.