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OFFICIAL NEWS - OFFICIAL NEWS - OFFICIAL NEWS
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HOUSE ADONIS BBS IS CLOSED !
Hello people,
This is Blue Adonis. Yes, it's official! My board is closed
permanently. We did NOT get busted or anything similar, so don't
spread rumours. After all, HOUSE ADONIS was a shareware board,
specialized in music and art.
Anyway, the past few weeks a lot happened in the scene. First
there was the bust of GENESIS and just a week ago, POINTBREAK got
busted too. Both because they had a little 300 byte file online
which cracks Novell Netware and converts it into a 1000 user
application.
So, I wonder, what are we doing here? Is it worth all that shit?
I mean, what good is it to run a shareware board, if even THAT
isn't safe anymore. If you run a warez board, and you get busted,
you know why. But in the example of the 2 busts mentioned above,
I surely have my questions about the future of bbs'ing. Not that
I'm leaving the scene, NO! far from it... TRAXX is still active,
and more beatfull than before. Our WHQ just moved from HOUSE
ADONIS to NEO TOKYO BBS.
The board is closed because I have big future plans, and I'd hate
to see them go to waste because of some stupid crack that may get
uploaded.
It's virtually impossible to check all uploads on a bbs where
about 150 meg of new stuff comes in every week. Even more, if a
FILE_ID.DIZ doesn't contain the word "CRACK" or "PATCH", it's
very hard to know if the file is illegal or not. So what should
a sysop do? Check ALL files every time? Are you insane? Do you know
what that represents? In the case of HOUSE ADONIS, this means
about 40 hours of work every WEEK! No way, man! I don't have the
time for it. Even on big commercial boards there's always a
chance some files aren't clean. Maybe the guys from Novell should
take a look at the Internet. There's tons of illegal stuff on it,
and nobody does anything about it. But, hey, a shareware BBS,
well, that's the real threat? ... Don't make me laugh.
Anyway, there's nothing small people like you and me can do about
it. They athletically use the law so that you always draw the
shortest straw, right? So, the only thing for me to do was close
the BBS. I admit it came hard for me. I just loved BBS'ing ...
It was my life. But I don't want to live on every day fearing
that some company finds something on my bbs that they hate.
And believe me, I spent hours looking for illegal stuff on my
bbs, and removing it, cleaning it, nuking the files, punishing
the uploaders, etc... But it seems that isn't enough. Companies
want it to be 100% clean. Well, I'm sorry, but I can't guarantee
that. I have only 2 hands and 2 eyes. And you all know that not
all users help you keep the bbs clean. After all, they're users,
surfers, joyriders. It's not their responsability. So I decided
to pull the plug on my bbs. Too bad ... Especially because those
Novell cracks never were in my file bases ...
Well, life sukcs, right? Oh well ... I hope that my users had a
great time during those 3 great years. And we all had fun, right?
Thanks people, for a splendid bbs period. Love you all!
Okay, so now... on with the show ... Just because I don't have
a board anymore doesn't mean I won't be in the demo scene anymore.
(some people will be disappointed about that, but hey, fuck you,
assholes). I will still make music, I will still release TRAXX
music packs ... And maybe now I'll have some more time for my
wife and my friends. Because friends do exist ...
See you all on another board somewhere, in our TRAXX releases,
on demo parties, and ... soon on the Internet.
Don't let the scene die, people. They may close our boards, but
they can't close our minds!
Ciao, babes ...
Blue Adonis
ex-sysop HOUSE ADONIS / TRAXX founder
NOTE: TRAXX members can reach the group on NEO TOKYO: +32-50-620112