Hello Wolfgang

This is not multithreading related but it might help you anyways. We were 
confronted with the same problem for the RSS aggregator module. What happens if 
a blog is down/unresponsive? It would block the whole site from loading, just 
as you explained it already. So what the rss aggregator module does is actually 
trying to get the feeds every 10 minutes and stores the retrieved data in the 
data module. It then retrieves its content from the data module instead of 
doing a call to the service which might be down.
Advantage: You're more or less independant from any other services, the request 
is done in the background and even if it fails, you still have the already 
retrieved data from 10 minutes ago.
Disadvantage: You duplicate the content in the data module and you might not be 
able to get the newest content immediately.

HTH
Natascha

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