Well, conversely it has always worked here through the front door using my "favourites" link of
http://www.mapleleafup.org/forums/
and as best I can recall we have never had failed access in at least the last two years (CRAFT problem) except those I have flagged to Geoff by regular email and then it would seem the whole site was down for an explicable reason; I doubt these occurrences make much more than the fingers of one hand though.
R.