[boc-l] It's time for goodbyes

[daveb10000 at ntlworld.com]

And a big thanks from me to everyone who contributed to this list over the
years. I too haven't posted for an eternity and only ever contributed
sporadically prior to that, but I always very much appreciated the list and
its contributors and will (continue to) miss it.  

Dave

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From: boc-l <boc-l-bounces at lists.ispnet.net> On Behalf Of gingoblin--- via
boc-l
Sent: 12 December 2021 09:38
To: BOC / Hawkwind Discussion List <boc-l at lists.ispnet.net>
Cc: gingoblin at easynet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [boc-l] It's time for goodbyes

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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