I'm closing my mixmaster, nsa@omaha.com, on the 4th of June. There wasn't an incident that triggered this, but Hal's post about the FBI sort of spooked me, as have the lawsuits. I don't have a lot of assets myself, but I do have partners. My lawyer tells me that there's no reliable way to separate my personal net activities from those of the company my parnters and I own, and that I could even be exposing my parnters to personal liability. I can't speak for anyone else, but for me the problem with running a remailer is that it's an inherently altruistic enterprise. That in itself wouldn't be so bad, but the liability makes the extent of the altruism open ended. If I knew that the worst case scenario would be $1k or even a $5k personal loss I could do it, but an open ended liability that's shared by my partners is unacceptable. I'm sorry for the inconvenience this will cause. -- Alex Strasheim, alex@proust.suba.com