[ale] Test msg - please forgive me

[tfreeman at ike2.room17.com (Thompson Freeman)]

I'm having issues with a balky router/firewall having to do with 
a resistance to resetting/password. Unfortunately, I have no 
real simple way to test that things haven't gotten properly 
hosed without bouncing something through ALE.

Thanks for the use of your bandwidth, and hopefully I won't need 
to borrow it anymore.