From admin@orbz.org Tue Mar 19 22:19:24 2002 Received: from carbon ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost ident=derf) by carbon with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16nWdI-0000KU-00 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:19:24 -0500 Delivered-To: pop-pickup@dividedsky.net Received: from carbon [127.0.0.1] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.10) for derf@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:19:24 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 18498 invoked by uid 1013); 20 Mar 2002 03:15:55 -0000 Delivered-To: derf@penguinhosting.net Received: (qmail 18495 invoked by uid 512); 20 Mar 2002 03:15:55 -0000 Delivered-To: dividedsky.net-fps@dividedsky.net Received: (qmail 18493 invoked by uid 509); 20 Mar 2002 03:15:55 -0000 Received: from a.mx.orbz.org (HELO orbz.org) (orbz@205.231.149.25) by mail.penguinhosting.net with SMTP; 20 Mar 2002 03:15:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 20773 invoked by uid 1021); 20 Mar 2002 03:16:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact list-help@orbz.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: list X-No-Archive: yes List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Reply-To: Delivered-To: mailing list list@orbz.org Received: (qmail 20706 invoked by uid 0); 20 Mar 2002 03:16:00 -0000 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 03:15:49 +0000 From: ORBZ To: list@orbz.org Message-ID: <20020320031549.A16595@penguinhosting.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Operating-System: Linux zeus.penguinhosting.net 2.4.18-pre7-ac3 Subject: [ORBZ] Shutdown Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Here's the email that those of you with forward sight have been fearing since the inception of ORBZ. As of this moment, ORBZ is shutting down. DNS zones are going to stop resolving, the website will disappear and mail will stop working (so furthur discussion on this list probably won't work -- use NANAE). I don't want to disappear in silence like ORBS, so I'll try for as much description as possible without compromising my own position. I received an official court notice this afternoon to turn over all information relation to ORBZ accounts. This came from the 10th Judicial District court of the State of Michigan. It appears that ORBZ may be facing criminal charges for denial of service relating to the Lotus Domino issue. I was happy to try to weather any civil issues that may have come up, and I was committed to seeing it through. However, the threat of jail time is too much; I don't believe in this fight quite that much. Thank you all for all your support. I sincerely hope that someone with the goal of carrying on the mission of ORBZ pops up in another country with a less foreboding legal system. Anyone who has copies of the current zones may do with them what they wish. For those of you stuck without good spam filtering, please consider ORDB and SpamCop; they both provide excellent free solutions. Ian Gulliver ORBZ ---------------------------------------------- This message was sent to the opt-in ORBZ list. If you do not want to receive ORBZ messages, please send mail to list-unsubscribe@orbz.org.