[ale] Stumped by Slashdot and network problems

[lists at sourceillustrated.com (John Wells)]

Jim Popovitch said:
> Is it possibly blocked by Norton Firewall (or such)?  What about
cookies?  Also check IE security zone settings.

Nope....nothing like that.  I'm using Firefox anyway.

I've found a few posts on Google indicating this *may* be a problem with
the mtu being set incorrectly, but increasing/decreasing the MTU/MRU set
on the ppp0[-N] interfaces created by poptop when a client connects
doesn't seem to have any effect.