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Russ Roth
Hey, I'm finally in this morning too. Thanks.

Ha! Ha! Me too! If you can believe that. I could get into the main DTA page but not into the forum. Had to manually enter all of the URL addresses again...
Still seems to be some glitches that we have to resolve, a bunch of red X images and smilies abounding on the site. Probably a few last crap sandwiches left to me by the the guy in Beijing, whom which I told, you are incompetent and lazy...however that didn't make him competent nor industrious...ha! ha!

What happened was the Domain Name Service went out of business and was taken over by another company (chinese) the defunct company had not, despite several requests, changed my email address, which they have had since 2005, I have the emails from them proving it. So they sent expiration notices to a dead email account while I was trying to find out how to renew. It took a few days to track down the successor to the defunct company, then we started a dance of misunderstanding, language gaps and just plain stupidity as they insisted that I prove that I was me in order to release the web name back to me. Never mind that they knew who I was because of my email, credit cards, etc. etc. etc. It was like being at Alice in Wonderland's picnic...
A special Thanks to Phil for assisting and Phil actually was able, this very morning, to get the email re-directed to me, something the chinese failed or refused to do in spite of communicating with me for 7 days, several day that were using that email!
Thanks to everyone for their patience and sticking by while we dealt with the red tape...it really was red... = )