Well I guess if serious funding is to become a subject I'm going to have to raise this one, if only to set my own mind at rest....

The "host" of Mudcat is/was OnstageMedia who are amongst other things, a web hosting company...

I find this page which tells me that OnstageMedia are the hosts and still refer to OnstageMedia having a TI (when MC went to a DSL).

If I use Netcraft and search. I find that CognitiveScience.org and Mudcat share the same IP address as http://www.help.mudcat.org (most probably a virtual server issue).

I guess my bottom line would be wishing to know as many other speculations are possible.

Jon