The Asian lack of service was apparently due to two underwater cables in the Med being damaged. The Beeb have the story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7218008.stm M. -----Original Message----- From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 175@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 31 January 2008 07:01 To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jhb] Re: List problems? The service in Dubai last night was terribly poor. I connect in the evenings to a supposed 100Mb connection. I understand this morning that the main trunk crossing the Indian ocean was down, so everything was being channeled through other pipelines.... I have it on good authority that Thunderbird 5 came into its own! Regards Kev "bones" <bones@xxxxxxx> wrote: > To add to this I've just had the last few hours of threads bounced back to > me as undeliverable from all of you on Blueyonder - that's yourself, Frank > and Ernie. I suspect your ISP is having problems. > > bones >