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

[Eric Falk]

I subscribed to this list a long, long time ago (anyone remember the 
t-shirts??) because of BOC.  I was already a fan of Hawkwind and this 
list helped me flesh out more material from them and related to them.
I have also discovered many other wonderful bands and music.

Over all this list is a community, and like any community there may be 
people who are a part of it with whom we may not like or appreciate 
things they do and ways they behave, but they are still part of the 
community.  We can ignore them, ostracize them, call them out or correct 
them, etc.  Or even react to them.

I have come to appreciate all things that come through my inbox from 
BOC-L warts and all.  Did I appreciate having 150 emails from this list 
pop up this morning.  Not really, but with simple filtering and 
occasional reading through it was quite easy to deal with.

I appreciate where Christian comes from; he make me laugh and rarely 
offends me, and he has targeted my religion at times.  I'm not that 
serious a person and I get the feeling he's not either.  Does he have 
issues?  Who am I to say?  Frankly I know of no one who doesn't have issues.

Frankly this is a community that strongly enjoys one of or both bands, 
each with a rich history but they are dinosaur bands. Though Hawkwind is 
certainly the more active of the two.
We are a community that listens to music that is in the global minority, 
an perhaps for that reason some of us think within a global minority at 
least when it comes to posting from the privacy of our homes.

At the end of the day it's better than reading the news.

Just my two bits of copper.

   --Eric

On 8/3/2015 11:59 AM, Mike c wrote:
> 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)
>

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