My technically inclined friend also thinks that it might be a server problem as I use both mudcat & shorty. I log on late at night so I don't know if it is a busy time for netscape, it's now 10.15pm my time, & 6.05am according to mudcat - well before US business hours?

Another of life's little mysteries.

sandra

Chris's reply below -
It would seem to be a server problem (ie mudcat's
problem) as the
most likely cause. If they've grown too fast for their
servers or
their network bandwidth you could see this kind of
problem. OTOH, it could just be your slow/congested ISP.

If you can fetch stuff from one or other of the servers,
then the
connection must be ok. If the browser can display it,
then it's
probably not netscape. Neither of those causes can be
ruled out
though, and the problem may be intermittent too...