lead remailer is shut down

Michael H. Warfield mhw at wittsend.com
Thu Feb 6 20:47:40 PST 1997


zinc enscribed thusly:

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> hi,

> i came in today to find they (university system admins) had pulled the
> plug on my machine.  this is all because some luser spammed usenet
> using the remailer on my machine.  thanks a lot.

	Yeah?  Did you find his ass?  Kindly forward the coordinates
of the body so we can desecrate the corpse!

> so, the lead remailer is gone for good; it lasted almost exactly one
> year. 

> it was nice while it lasted.

	Never used it but it is always sad to see the passing of a network
resource due to the abuse by cretins with all the morals of an alley cat
in heat...

> - -patrick finerty
> biochem grad student, u of utah

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	Mike
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