[boc-l] It's time for goodbyes

[Jason Gool]

Same from me. A big thank-you to Ben and Terry for keeping this list going, and kind 
regards to everyone who contributed and shared their knowledge. I too was a very 
infrequent poster but enjoyed reading other people's input.

I distinctly remember Al Bouchard joining the list. I think I learnt more about BOC in the 
following 3-4 weeks than I had in the whole previous twenty years.

Sad to see the list go. I know there hasn't been much traffic in the past few years, but I will 
still miss it knowing it's not there any more.

Cheers,

Jas


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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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[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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