You're not alone. Think this recent phenomena is happening all over MS'
community webpages (not just for Excel newsgroups) of late, since 23rd Dec,
although some posts/responses still seem to be able to get through the
webpages sporadically (a remarkable few!) from viewing the newsgroups via
google/OE. It's one of the worst/longest MS ng web-downtime IIRC in recent
history. No choice, i guess, those using MS comm web would have to patiently
wait for MS to fix it & get it all up again ..