Eelbash - A history of events

Introduction

Eelbash has been around for the better part of five years, but only old regulars of the remailer community would know this as it's changed name with incredible frequency. On some occasions the name changes were clearly announced by the operator, whilst occasionally it took some investigative work within the community to realise a new remailer announcement was more of a reincarnation.

Unfortunately most of the announcements posted by the administrator of these services were made with an X-No-Archive: Yes header. The following postings are frequently the closest subsequent followup I can find to the announcement.

Chronology

31-May-2000 Eelbash A new remailer is announced in alt.privacy.anon-server
06-Oct-2000 Announcement of 'Eelbash Going Off The Air'
07-Mar-2002 Axolotl Followup to the announcement of Axolotl
08-Aug-2002 Axolotl2 Followup to announcement - problem importing keys
10-Dec-2002 Cheshire Followup to announcement - Axolotl2 and Cheshire on same host
18-Aug-2003 Bog Announcement of Cheshire becoming Bog
22-Sep-2003 Bogg Followup to announcement of new name and keys
17-Nov-2003 Bogg Shutdown Announcement of Bogg shutdown
23-Nov-2003 Congo Announcement of Bogg becoming Congo
09-Feb-2004 Eelbash Followup to announcement - Eelbash returns
28-Feb-2004 Eelbash - Latent Time Announcement of new Eelbash Latent-Time directive for Mixmaster
14-Mar-2004 Eelbash - Going exit only Announcement that Eelbash is going 'Exit Only'
15-Mar-2004 Eelbash - Now exit only Announcement that Eelbash is now 'Exit Only'
02-Apr-2004 Eelbash - Middle Announcement that Eelbash is not 'Exit Only'
02-Jun-2004 Bushwa Frog Stats - Earliest found reference to Bushwa
09-Jun-2004 Greatwall Announcement of Greatwall
11-Jun-2004 Asmodeus Followup to announcement - Rename after Greatwall (9 char) issue
14-Mar-2005 Asmodeus Shutdown Announcement of Eelbash closure
02-Apr-2005 Parsifal Announcement of Parsifal
18-Apr-2005 Parsifal Shutdown Announcement of Parsifal closure
23-Apr-2005 Parsifal Returns Announcement that Parsifal is reborn and in testing
30-Jul-2005 Eelbash Returns (again) Yep, he's back again!
03-Aug-2005 Address Change Eelbash lasted almost a week before dyndns.org kicked him out. Now he's back with new keys on yi.org
22-Aug-2005 Eelbash closes Eelbash closed following anon abuse complaints to his ISP.