I am not enough of a techno-geek beyond my own firewall to agree or disagree.
I can offer my observations whicj agree with Obadiah. FR has been remarkably slow these past few weeks. I haven’t noticed problems loading pages at FR ever. Not like this. I have to hit a link 2 or 3 times and when it works, it takes forever to load. There is almost a pattern to it.
Read the last few posts here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084074/posts
I am NOT covered in tin-foil nor do I see black helicopters. I do believe in an extra measure of caution at times. :-)
We’ll be fine. John has done a remarkable job of keeping FR on the air for all these years.