On 26 Feb 2001 07:26:13 GMT, glawackus@aol.competent (Glawackus)
wrote:

>It's a generic message that means your browser couldn't establish a conection
>with the server, though that could be because the server is not only down, but
>unplugged and about to be sold to pay all those legal fees. You'd get the same
>message if somebody had tripped over any of several cables attached to the
>server, or if a bus just took out the pole with their internet connection.

Ohhh...ok. I didn't know what was up with it. I've never tried to
connect to Napster and I was on someone else's computer who is ...like
you.... on aol. Aol does things a bit differently than my ISP so I
wasn't sure about the message. I used to grab mp3's and wav files
from IRC chat. There's a script that allows you to do that when
someone plays one of these files. Ppl trade them or just sit in the
channel and listen to what is being played. Well after 4 yrs of doing
that, I had a nice collection. Then my hard drive crashed. LOL My
sound card died too and I haven't even replaced it yet. And I have
no intentions of putting music files back on this hard drive. It's
just not the same ....so if I wanna hear music, I flip a disc in the
CD player in my stereo downstairs.... not here. Closing Napster won't
prevent music from being spread illegally.... it was going on LONG
before Napster ever showed up. I always wondered how the channels on
IRC that provided that service were allowed to remain open. They've