[boc-l] It's time for goodbyes

[gingoblin at easynet.co.uk]

Thanks from me too! These may be the first words I've actually written 
on here in a decade or more, but been reading since I joined in May 1996!

On 11/12/2021 20:24, Ben Cohen via boc-l 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
>
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