[boc-l] It's time for goodbyes

[Nathan Gilbert]

Thanks for maintaining this list all these years! I didn’t contribute much but had a lot of fun reading it over the years. 

Nathan

> On Dec 11, 2021, at 1:24 PM, Ben Cohen via boc-l <boc-l at lists.ispnet.net> wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> It's been a lengthy ride, but it's time to bring things to a close - and for a
> few reasons.
> 
> 1) The list is "officially" down to 52 members (two of which are me,
> actually). Recently, MS / Office forced a "mass unsubscription" event by
> rejecting quite a few (around 10 or so, I think?) email addresses. That
> was interpreted by the list management software as "those addresses have gone
> away".
> 
> 2) There's been no significant activity for quite a while. [Granted, the last
> bit was discussing Re-Imaginos and the 2nd album, for which I was grateful and
> hadn't known, but, even so - this just isn't an active community any more.]
> 
> But - I've saved the "best" for last...
> 
> 3) ISPNet, which has very graciously hosted the email list for a very long
> time, is closing its doors and getting rid of its servers. That process needs
> to be complete by the end of December, 2021. As such, the underpinnings of the
> list are going away as well.
> 
> Given the lack of activity, I just don't see any significant reason to try and
> migrate the list to another host / format / whatever.
> 
> History will not be completely lost, though - the mailing list archives (and
> everything else that's happened) will remain available as a text-format
> archive at:
> 
> 	https://www.glaver.org/ftp/boc-l
> 
> ... for which I am also grateful to Terry Kennedy, a friend of mine for
> forever, who was also instrumental in allowing me to use ISPNet for hosting
> the mailing list.
> 
> If anyone would like to contact me, I'm available both here (ben at glaver.org)
> or my more "normal" public email, (bmcatt at gmail.com).
> 
> So, to close this in a possibly overly cliched manner:
> 
> Email lists don't fear the reaper,
> Nor do the members, mods, or hosts.
> 
> [Ok, yeah, that sucked, but what do you expect for off the top of my head,
> huh? :)]
> 
> It's been a blast, all!
> 
> Your (still) friendly mailing list moderator,
> Ben
>