Hi Penny, We had slow mail up until today - message in our local paper and from my ISP was that there was problem with a cable just off the coast off Singapore - they think it was an undersea earthquake - I think it was just mother nature telling us all that it doesn't matter how smart we think we are with our computers and all SHE can just throw a better show than we can!! I haven't had too much of a problem but my ISP uses a couple of backup companies but I have seen lots of complaints on the net. I haven't been contributing to the list much in the last few days - lots of things - occasionally my husband insists I send some invoices out as we need to eat and pay the telephone bill!! Picky isn't he ? But I manage to catch up with reading all the mail late at night - Here in Australia I get your mail when you are all sleeping - not being a very good sleeper myself (trying to hold off the sleeping pills as long as I can) I get to read all the threads - Anyway this was supposed to be a short note but I am afraid I am as bad as Maggie - got diarrhea of the mouth! cheers Rosa