From: BRIAN MCBEE <opac!brian%OPAC.osl.or.gov@CS.ORST.EDU> If it turns out that pressure to shut down really did come from the official net hierarchy ... There is no question: those who were paying for the (quite expensive, relatively low bandwidth) connection between the US & Australia found themselves with a saturated link and looked for a "good candidate" to shut off. It turns out that lots of the packets are mail, and a good number of the mail messages were going to/from the anonymous service. This was not a move against anonymous e-mail or the research into it. This was just an abuse of "someone elses money" that was easy to target. Next topic please ... this is getting tired. /jordan