[boc-l] It's time for goodbyes

[Jill Strobridge]

Ah gosh about half my life just flashed before me!    So many memories and
I can honestly say that this list changed my life - not only for the music
it introduced me to but all the incredible people I was able to meet and
interact with.   Greetings to all of you and thank you for your company!

Thank you Ben for maintaining it all and for keeping us on track.
Goodbye and may the hawk fly onwards!

cheers
Jill



On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 at 20:25, 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
>
>
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