OFF: Metaphysical question... is BOC-L dead?

[Mike c]

I'm pledged to try my very very hardest to conduct myself mature, not
say insulting things and not get caught up in chit chat mails

It is hurtful when veterans are bothered, Alex being one.

Come back Jon you can toss me out yourself if needed

On 8/3/15, Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at coriolis.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Alex S. Garcia wrote:
>> I've been subscribed to BOC-L for nearly 20 years now (time really
>> flies!)
>>
>> I originally subscribed because I am a fan of Blue Oyster Cult.
>>
>> Through the list, I have also come to discover and enjoy Hawkwind.
>>
>> However, it seems that the more time passes and the more this list is
>> turning
>> into the Mike and Christian Rant Podium, where they come to vent their
>> own
>> personal griefs -- which most of the time bear little if any relevance to
>> either BOC or HW, let alone music in general.
>>
>> Also, the racist contents of some of these mails leave me speechless. The
>> lack
>> of any reaction, from anyone, is even more baffling to me. Or does that
>> mean
>> everyone else has already unsubscribed? Or, perhaps, that nobody reads
>> their
>> messages anymore? (I have to admit, I rarely do myself).
>>
>> Still, if the madness doesn't cease soon, I'll most likely have to accept
>> the
>> sad fact that BOC-L is now dead and will proceed to bury it (ie.
>> unsubscribe),
>> which would break my heart considering how attached I feel to it after
>> all
>> these years...
>
>  	I think today is probably breaking point for me today as well,
> alas. I have 167 deleted messages from today's log-in and more than half
> of them are from Christian. Well, he can have it, I want none of them.
>
>  	As a parting shot, BÖC played the Rambling Man festival in the UK
> a week or aso ago, and though I couldn't go, an ex of mine whom I got into
> the band was there with the family and all agreed that BÖC put on the best
> show of the festival, so my fears that they had now run their course may
> be premature. At any rate, this line-up can hold up their heads amid the
> rockers who will never give up!
>
>  	I will check back in on the list in a few weeks and see what
> things look like then, I guess. It's a pity, because I'd much prefer my
> news and chatter this way than on a web board, but this is how Usenet went
> and I guess it's how listserv goes too; only the most determined will hang
> on when the traffic gets below a certain level. It's been good fun,
> people, catch you in a gig hall like as not, yours all,
>  							Jon
>
> --
>    Jonathan Jarrett       "There is scarce any tradition or popular error
> Medievalist historian    but stands also delivered by some good author."
>       Birmingham         (Sir Thomas Browne, "Pseudodoxia Epidemica", 1646)