I am sorry to hear the news. I really appreciate everything you've done for the site and our community. I wish you well.

Most of my old server parts are serving things. (Maybe someday I'll replace my home lab gear... >smile<)

Holy crap. It's been ten years. I am so old now... >sigh<

Similar situation for me, except add to it that we had a kid, too. I keep telling myself I'll get into a regular groove with the site again but life circumstances keep getting in the way. (I keep lamenting to my wife that I'm "losing on Server Fault". >sigh<)

@ewwhite - I definitely feel like it's happening on the site w/ greater frequency. (I'm also totally w/ you on the 'I thought I was helping people' comment.)

There's nothing "unethical" about a protocol. I've periodically run a private bittorrent tracker in my K12 education Customer's LAN to speed up deployment of new disk images out to client computers. (We write the WIM file out to a secondary partition and image from there via PXE boot.) The bittorrent protocol can be used for perfectly legal and "ethical" purposes.

+1 - Same here. My telephone number (which forwards to my wireless) is in my profile, too... >smile<

My rep would be crap if I couldn't just fake practical knowledge of a subject by Googling. I can't find the question right now to cite it, but I shamefully recall finding some search results on an obscure vertical market program that I knew nothing about a few years ago, posting it w/ my usual "lemme explain this" tone, and having the OP come back and say "Finally, somebody who knows about xxx posted." I didn't feel so shameful as to mark it "Community Wiki", though... >smile<