We do have some technical issues to resolve, and I'm hoping they'll be taken care of soon. When he speaks of the speed he plans for the servers, Jeff uses words like "screaming" and other technobabble like that. I suppose he'll get us up to that point, sooner or later.

You have to remember, though, that Jeff and Max live in different parts of that vast wilderness known as Pennsylvania. I live in California, so I don't get involved in that part of the work at all - but I'm retired and have the time to work on the day-to-day things. Mudcat is housed at Max's home in West Chester, and it can be difficult for Max and Jeff to get together there to work on equipment. That's one of the reasons why it took so long to get the Mudcat upgrade in place. I won't make any predictions about when we'll be able to get our reliability issues worked out.

In the meantime, what I told Bonnie is pretty solid. Max directed the ragtime address to one of our two working servers, but ragtime itself is dead and gone. He also redirected the loki address, but not many people use it. There's also a www.deltablues.com address, and I think that redirects to one of the two servers.

We have two servers, www.mudcat.org and shorty.mudcat.org - both are working now. Here are links you can right-click and save to your favorites/bookmarks:

http://shorty.mudcat.org/threads.cfm
http://www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm

Please get out of the habit of using the other addresses. Use www.mudcat.org whenever you can, and shorty when the other doesn't work. When making links within Mudcat, use relative (internal) links that will work on either server (leave out the http://www.mudcat.org and just use the rest of the URL). When posting links in the Help Forum or sending a link by e-mail or whatever, DO use the http://www.mudcat.org - and generally it's probably best not to give out the shorty address unless you give it as an alternative to the regular address.

-Joe Offer-