On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:15:28 +0000, Rod
wrote:

Earlier today I wrote (and posted) the post below. Unfortunately that
attempt failed - probably because of the very subject of the post! So,
as it seemed to be bad all day, I am still interested to know the
answer. Apologies if by some magic my original post also makes it here
eventually.

original post

I seem to be getting loads and loads of problems with n.i.n. today -
keeps timing out and failing to connect, etc. I have even (drum roll...)
rebooted my machine today in an effort to avoid/correct problems!

Is this widespread? Or am I suffering on my own? (Or - can I wait while
they sort it out or do I have to go off and find out what is wrong here?
:-) )

I use them as well and it has been a bit erratic today .Sometimes it
seems to take a while to connect to the server . I also have Agent set
to send "keep alive" messages every so often and all day I have been
coming back to my PC to find a message saying it has been unable to
connect . It's usual this situation .