>>Seems like # of logged-in users and message traffic generally is unusually low today.
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>>Might there be some reason for this?
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>>Just curious.
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>The site has been down for me most of the day...have you not had any problems connecting to the site?

I was out between 0800hr (when I had visited UT successfully) and 1230hr, so never tried in that time.

That surely explains it.