>QBox-USA has been down for a few weeks now. The power supply died and while >I got that replaced I was looking through the logs and noticing that the BBS >had received very few callers over the past year or so. I also started >looking at the increasing costs of the phone line, when I started Qbox-USA >the phone line ran approx US$15 per month. Now it's getting close to $30. > (snip) >So I decided to shut it down and cancel the phone line, the extra $30 a >month will be put to good use. I think it had a good run and was definitely >very heavily used for a few years. We started it around September 1993 with >'94 - '97 probably it's peak years. I have no regrets running it as long as >we did but I think it's time has come and gone.
While it's always sad to hear news like this, your reasoning is quite sound. Would you consider setting up a website in its place to preserve the material? Alternatively, I can put some programs which might otherwise disappear onto my website or PD library, I'm sure others your side of the pond would help in this respect too. -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
