On Jul 29, 2:32*am, John Kuthe > wrote:
> On Jul 29, 7:26*am, John Kuthe > wrote:
>
> > Let's see how long it takes this message to appear back to me...
>
> > John Kuthe....
>
> About 10 minutes or a little more. Lousy latency! But at least it
> works!
>
> John Kuthe...

You can assume that Google Groups is down if the last post on this
newsgroup is more than a few hours old. The last post I get is about 8
hours old. It's down alright. :-)