Haloscan appears to have fixed up the server problem, and to have salvaged most of the comments that were posted immediately before the shutdown. I’m still thinking about a shift and have received some very kind offers of help in this respect. But I’ll put that off until I have a bit more free time. In the meantime, there must be a huge backlog of comments waiting to be made. The Monday Message Board has slipped a fair way down the page, so I suggest that non-specific comments be posted in the thread for this message.