not to defend gox's retarded writing, but they are implementing new protocol and it might be good to be safe. they also haven't said what that would be. <
the real reason though is probably because they are hoping that the gox price will rise fast enough to cancel any arbitrage opportunity, and while people will still probably leave because goxsux, they at least wouldn't lose all their biz instantly.

 Also the gox price will once again rise above everybody else's.....some fish will decide to stay.
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Sorry - you beat me to it, but agree this strategy is the only option that makes sense - so (assuming they do open soon) it is their only option, which is reassuring in some ways.