I have been trying for days to post and say what a wonderful time I had. But something wrong with my server it is filtering out this site.
I wish I could tell you exactly what the problem was, but I can't. It's also happened to me on more than one occasion, and I know the problem is related to my ISP because I can log out of it and log back on to the Internet with another service and get right through to the forum. :-/ I won't say that I'm glad to see that someone else has experienced the same problem, but at least now I know it's not only my ISP. It's also not just the forum because I'm a member of the InformIT Online Books service, and I had a terrible time getting through to them last week with my regular ISP.
My best guess is that Internet congestion is the culprit. There are only so many router paths available. Normally, if one path is clogged with traffic at some point along the way, another less direct path will get you where you want to go. But every once and a while an alternative just isn't available, and the only thing you can do is wait for one to become available. IE tends to time out if it can't get through to a site in a set amount of time, but Netscape will keep trying to find an open path until you stop it from looking. So what I usually do when I really want to get through to a site and I don't have access to an alternative ISP is leave Netscape running and within 10 to 15 minutes it eventually finds its way. (Unfortunately, though, the connection doesn't necessarily last for as long as I 'd like it to, so I have to wait all over again for it to find another path in. :-/)