Given the fact  that this is the only reaction about running the paste engine, I think there's nobody interested in fighting the spambots solely to keep a lisp paste bot running.

My conclusion then is that indeed we'll turn the service to be read-only for the purpose of maintaining the older pastes around.

There then is one remaining thing to be done, though: clean the current body of pastes from any abusive or inappropriate content.

Would anybody be interested in taking up the task to do such a thing? (btw, I'm not thinking of reading each and every one of the posts in the system; I'm more thinking of using bayes testing (like spambayes or spamassassin) to clean the system with "minimum" energy)

Regards,