I was on the list. One of the BFL scamsters send me a PM asking if I had pics of 'his father'. I didn't reply, but I think I made mention of it on the public forum somewhere.
As far as I am concerned, Theymos (or Thermos as I like to call him) did exactly the right thing from what I can ascertain. He did only as much as required by the court and with some resistance. Much more important, he's done what he can to inform people of the goings on. This is risky and not always possible in what is shaping up to be something of a police state dominated world to be frank about things.
Theymos may or may not have been able to do more in terms of truly deleting 'deleted' PM's. And not keeping access logs if he does. But to be fair, I don't run any privacy sensitive web sites and I don't know if he either does work to avoid access logs, or is required to keep them for some legal reasons. Even if he worked to avoid them, however, absent a fairly advanced proxy solution it would not matter much since the info would be logged by others anyway.
I for one appreciate the PM I got from Theymos. I never expected privacy when using bitcointalk either as a public forum or as a PM solution, and invite people to use my private e-mail address for future potentially sensitive correspondence. Doing otherwise you be stupid on my part and not on the part of Theymos.
I do hope that Theymos now has some more empathy for the whats-his-fuck partner of his in the quasi-stock-market thing they had going. Obviously 99.9% of people are going to buckle under the power that the state can bring to bear on anyone. That British guy sounds like a world class shithead from what I can deduce, but not because he folded the exchange when the state came down on his ass. Any vaguely sane and semi-rational person will do just that, and that includes 99.9% of those holding Bitcoin today. That should factor in to a design of distributed crypto-currencies, including Bitcoin, going forward, but I don't hold much hope for that. And with Gavin involved my hope is effectively less than zero.