On a slightly related subject, recently the process of navigating round pprune seems to have slowed down a lot; as one selects a thread or another forum there's a huge amount of activity in the bottom left-hand corner (the words "transferring data from...." crop up a lot), often a long pause with a blank screen with the word "read" in that corner with an address of some sort.
Is this to do with pprune, my computer, or the network?