hi delda [and all others of the aolian persuasion] you wrote: >... From what I can tell, those of us having trouble are all on AOL >...no trouble for 15 months and suddenly 3 times in about 6 days, >I get none of the overnight mail. Clearly, AOL is fouling something up. for whatever it may be worth [fwimbw] i have had the same odd delays recently another aol quirk [!] i have also noticed recently is that twice in the last few days aol has hi-jacked me while i was on line and carried out an automatic upgrade to some aol files [something about 'streaming' sound and video files] i resent aol's arrogant approach in not asking my permission they do not charge for the extra time on line [!] but i would have preferred to have had the choice of when to do the upgrade while i was thus 'trapped' watching aol 'do its thing' for several long long minutes the question occurred to me: are they upgrading all of their zillions of customers this way? if so, could such a massive 'hi-jacking' be part [or all] of the reason for their mail slowdown? shot in the foot by 'friendly fire' so to speak? if so, i say: humph! your almost totally off-line [and holidaying] cyber-sis janet a new voice - http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/index.htm janet paterson - 51/10 - endocarb/selegiline/fluoxetine [aka generic Sinemet / generic Eldepryl / generic Prozac] almonte/ontario/canada - [log in to unmask]