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>>I'm not certain that it is a true sweeping lack of access.  Yes a few
>>members have pointed out that they cannot access the site and this needs
>>to be remedied.  I don't know what steps have been taken to deal with
>>this other than to make sure the people in question were making it to
>>the site provider's network.
> 

I demonostrated a 50% failure rate to connect using accounts from
Oregon, UK, Dallas, AZ, etc.

> 
> Hypothesis: A significant number of web accounts are unable to directly access 
> the PLUG website.
> 
> Extension: Those web accounts that cannot directly access the PLUG website are 
> disproportionately using high speed internet access.

One "account" that failed to connect was a co-lo facility.

> 
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> 
> Null Hypothesis: The number of web accounts unable to directly access the PLUG 
> website is statistically insignificant.

50% is highly significant... statistically my methodology was poor as I
only tried from 8 different "vectors".


> 
> ====================
> 
> There is plausible reason to suspect the hypothesis is true.
> 
> Do we need to demonstrate that the hypothesis is true?
> 
> How do we test the hypothesis?  (It would seem to require some sort of random 
> sampling.)

I have traceroutes from all 8 attempts, previously emailed to the list.

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