Let me tell you that the amount of work to make a stable pool is beyond imagination. In the last few days we invested a huge amount of money to get enough hardware and also a huge amount of effort to get the pool stable. I think this goes for most of the pools at the moment.
It is not that you just push a button and it works magically, but it takes hours of debugging, looking in logs and sleepless nights with crashes etc.
So, i will tell you guys just as it is. For now NLpool is stable since about 16.00 Amsterdam time. If you want, you can use it ... and we don't steal.
I for one appreciate the time, effort and expense you guys have gone to in order to create and maintain a stable pool.
You didn't mention all of the other sites sending you 'gift packages' in the form of DOS or DDOS. It's bound to be fun.