From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 22:55:47 -0800 (PST)
To: zinc <zinc@zifi.genetics.utah.edu>
Subject: Re: lead remailer is shut down
Message-ID: <199702070655.WAA12863@toad.com>
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zinc enscribed thusly:

> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted as well.

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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

> - -- 
> "Those that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1773)
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	Mike
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