I'm going to have to get a new name/e-mail address, obviously the provider announcements aren't making it all the way down to the "S"'s. Many people forwarded copies of MCI's mail, but I still haven't received a copy directly from MCI yet. Several people sent me several different possible causes. - AOL mail routing/DNS was FUBAR for an indeterminate period - A power plant blew up, which then fried several POPS in the midwest - Two sets of Cisco router problems - Two 'major' providers reported backbone-wide problems - SMURFing was running higher than average yesterday Is anyone correlating this? Did the Internet roll the dice and they just came up snake-eyes yesterday? And this is during the Internet's "slow period" of August. Just wait until the September effect hits. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation