Syskoll's still around
There are no paid admins, and probably won't ever be at 'spamgourmet.com' - please note that the software is open source, and anyone can install it and set up a service (commercial or otherwise) and I will even help them do it. I've done it before. They can say something like "powered by spamgourmet" or whatever.
Of course, perhaps a commercial service would have a hard time competing with a free spamgourmet.com, but maybe not.
Apologies again, all - I really don't know what took me so long - sometimes I'm on a plane, but not this time.
The reason the service doesn't start automatically is that when we come under an attack that paralyzes the server, we often need a couple of minutes after boot to implement a strategy to thwart the attack prior to switching back on the service - otherwise, the system goes back down immediately after it boots back up, which doesn't work, of course. The attacks have been less frequent recently, but the balance of competing concerns still favors a manual start, in my opinion (even with what just happened
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oh - and we're a month or two away from completing our first decade (yay!) Service has been operational since mid 2000, but only allowed public sign-ups since Oct. or Nov. I'll have to remember the exact date.