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- THE SCENE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!!!
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- BECAUSE << THE LAB BBS >> WILL SHUT DOWN
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- on 10 February. Probably Forever!!
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- R E A D W H Y
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- Finally I had to make the next decision:
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- After a period full of ups and downs:
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- THE LAB BBS is dead!! Only I had to admit it (and that was hard for me)!
- After being more than 2 years online I have to face the facts!!
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- There were 3 options to go:
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- 1. Trading like crazy!! (leeching & uppin') but that means I got a phonebill
- of f. 1000,-- or higher. I cann't really afford so much. And If I do this,
- I will sure be offline TOO next termine, because I have to sell my
- hardware!!!!
-
- 2. Going on like now, and see that more and more people didn't call my board
- anymore. (and still I had to pay phonebills more than 600 guilders!!)
- I don't mind that, but that's why I never could buy stuff for da computer
- and/or the bbs). Maybe for some persons isn't that much but unfortunately
- for me it is!
-
- 3. Going offline (probably forever). An advantage of this is that I finally
- can buy some things for myself. Maybe I stay in touch with a few sysops,
- but that's that!
-
- I have chosen for the last option, because I wouldn't like to miss my 1200!!
- I don't know for sure what really happened, but it is a fact that there
- are much too much boards in Holland, so there is too much concurrence.
- Traders are extinct and the only people who kept the scene alive were the
- sysoptraders. So I help you all by going offline.
-
- Oh sure, I have had more bad times in the past two years, but every time
- I could survive till now.
-
- I wanna thank the persons who kept The LAB BBS alive (specially in the
- bad days): These are no usually thanx, but SPECIAL thanx!!):
-
- Crazy White (ff in het Nederlands, want Engels lezen is voor jou
- moeilijk. Misschien krijg je deze tekst wel nooit te
- zien, maar ik wil je toch even bedanken voor de chats
- die we gehad hebben)
- Minor Threat (for his support in AUGUST'95)
- Maed (he tried)
- Midnight Caller (one of the few people who DIDN'T forget me!! and was
- always loyal!!)
- Pinokio (you was always a kewl dude, too bad you've left the
- scene)
- Pyxis (I think he was the only one who really liked my board)
- Sadus (maybe you never read this, but thanx for all you did.
- you see: I never forget the "oldies")
-
- Probably I forgot some people to mention, but for most of them I don't have
- special greetingz just the usual greetingz for them.
-
- But hey!! What about the Dutch Traders Charts and the Dutch Boards Charts???
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- The DATA of JANUARY you still can bring to my place!
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- After that you can sent your stuff to Infinity, the bbs of Maed. +31-(0)23-573065
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- If somebody wants to take it over just let me know. But I have to warn you:
- You must have time enough at the beginning of the month to be able to handle
- with that!! And you have to be a person with much integrity and be thrustfull
- and maybe a fool too?? But most important is you to have a heart for such
- kind of thing to do!!
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- I keep online till the 10 February and then this book is closed!!
- All accounts will go to Infinity too!!
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