Blogvoices discussion service closes. Here’s the author’s notice:

I have received word that several BlogVoices users have sent
harassing emails to Hostrocket.com. Please stop. I understand your
frustration, but harassment will not solve anything.

UPDATE

A “friendly face” has offered to host BlogVoices. I am currently
discussing the situation with them. Stay tuned.

NOTICE

At 10:53PM on Monday, January 22: I received an email from the
billing department of Hostrocket.com informing me that the
BlogVoices.com account was in violation of the Hostrocket Terms of
Service. Regardless of whether or not I agree with the reasoning, the
decision has been made.

Hostrocket was to be the third and final attempt to host the
BlogVoices service and I do not intend to deviate from my
resolution. BlogVoices.com will be closing indefinitely.

Unfortunately, the short and long-term demands of my job prevent
me from dealing with the situation in a more preferable manner. I
will, however, continue with the planned source code release and will
continue to work on the code-base as time permits. For further
up-to-date information relating to BlogVoices, please check:
http://www.chrish.org regularly. I will set up a permanent location for
downloads and documentation as soon as possible.

I will be saving the entire BlogVoices database and will make every
opportunity to provide each user (as requested) an exported version
of their BlogVoices data. For those who choose to install BlogVoices,
I can provide the data in a manner useful to the mysql
command-line utility.

I wish I could adequately express my feelings in the wake of this
decision, but given the electronic nature of this notice, that is just
not possible. I would like to thank everyone who supported the
service and hope that you will support those who launch their own
Blogger discussion systems.

It’d be nice to know the entire story; it seems to be the latest variant on the “tragedy of the commons”, in which selfish users of a community resource thoughtlessly ruin it for the rest of us. I’ll be removing the “discuss” facility from my template when I get a chance. Anyone out there who knows of an add-in to Blogger similar to Blogvoices — please point me to it. I loved providing discussion capability on the weblog! Please consider the mailing list (see sidebar) I set up several weeks ago.