In the past couple of weeks I have rarely been able to access the United forum. I also have found great slowness for other forums.
I am on the east Coast, try generally from noon to 11pm Eastern time.
For example, right now (1:30pm) I go to "Airline Miles" link, then scroll down to UNITED and click.
This link is "http://www.flyertalk.com/forumcgi/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=United&number =50&DaysPrune=5&LastLogin="
After a long time, I am presented with the single drop down box of selections and the error "You did not select a specific forum or archive. Please go back and try again." I choose UNITED and click GO again and come back to this page again.
Hope this helps.
Of couse, now that I have posted this, I finally got in... :-)
With the strange results mentioned above, where messages appear and disappear, is it possible that there are multiple servers for load balanacing and some are not exact copies of the other server?
[This message has been edited by Lavarock7 (edited 09-20-2001).]