> I'm new to this list which I found after failing to get onto
> inkscapeforum.com (which seems to be dead).
The forum is alive and well - there have been reports though by several
users that they can't access the site without turning off the firewall
of their router.
You could try to access the forum using a web proxy like e.g.
<http://www.webproxy.ca/>
<http://anonymouse.org/>
The forum topic about this issue is:
Problem with router firewall -- DNS misconfiguration??
<http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5097>