On Fri, 10 May 1996, Jeff Simmons wrote:

Is there any information available on why the Hacktic remailer was shut down?

Church of Scientology. Someone posted too many Secret Scriptures, it seems. The details, nobody has shared. Conspiracy theories, galore, but I have faith in their judgement and commitment to free speech and anonymity. I'm sure it was a tough decision. Btw, I don't believe it has shut down yet. Rather, the operators announced that due to "recent events," there would be a planned shutdown on May 20th. I *would* like to know if the mail2news gateway is going down in addition to the remailer. I'm assuming that it is. -rich