I took a peek at my traffic and saw that I had -1 visitors from a site. Wow. That's impressive. I guess someone decided not to read a post in the future that I've yet to write? :-)
CJ
Me too, and I've been scratching my head about it all day.
Maybe I've been bad and I owe them one.
In another thread on the same topic, Paul Deeds said they are hunting down some bugs in the code.
Maybe they were trapped in your hub and finally found a way to escape?
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