I don't think its associated with the forum software upgrade. Been happening for about week now. At first I thought it was IE5, but Netscape is just as slow.

You may be right about the number of messages. But I suspect its the ISP's link to the net, or their hardware and not the forum software. This is conjecture only. I do know that my access to other Web sites is not slow.

Rgds,
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/im (pondering the meaning of saintliness)