Uncle..... I said it was just slightly interesting. I don't intend to track the status of every web site on the Internet. There are several commercial companies which do that. Folks have suddenly discovered a number of government sites are out of service this weekend, and are coming up with all sorts of crazy theories. First of all, I don't know if many of the URL's folks sent me ever worked; so I don't know if the web site is really down or just another dead web link. In addition, people should remember most government webmasters don't work after 4:30pm on Friday. Its not all that unusual for a government web site to crash over the weekend and be down until Monday morning. Because I don't track web sites myself, I'll leave it up to one of the commercial web measurement firms to report if an unusual number of (private, commercial, government) web sites were down over the weekend. Operational points: I'm assuming its merely an interesting confluence of events. The Melissa virus notice is getting big media play, and some folks are turning off their mail (and web) servers just in case. Several reports involve web servers located at one provider's facility. There may be a single cause for those. And finally, sensitization of people because of my original message. BTW, it has been nearly twelve hours, and I still haven't heard back from any providers involved if there was a simple cause why the sites were down. That's not unusual either :-) -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation