Well, the Acta has been postponed until April, 2003 (checking into Barnes and Noble last night) and Cook's web page at CalTech has been "disappeared" (replaced by a "FORBIDDEN" notice, that is). But the pages of other graduate students in Erik Winfree's group, those which have put up pages, are still accessible. One might conjecture that something is going on.
Turns out, the web page glitch was just a sys admin accident with Linux file permissions. No evil intent, this time. By the way, although we are collaborating on some projects, Matt Cook is in Shuki Bruck's lab (upstairs from mine). By the way, the operational legal standard in harrassment cases seems to be, "what is sufficiently unclear to most judges as to warrant getting a lawyer". Erik