From: ducky@yabbs
To: Astra@yabbs
Subject: re: yabbs-is-dead mailing list
Date: Wed Aug 24 21:14:32 1994

In message re: yabbs-is-dead mailing list, Astra said:
> yabbs will not die.  Someone else will take it over.   See /i roth for 
> more info.  It is being worked on as this message is being typed.  Please 
> hold on and you will find out.

yabbs will die, at least in the way I know it.  I have been on the
net for many years, and have been part of a good many virtual
communities in that time.  I treasure the memories, but even when
many people tried, we could not hold on to a community that was
fading.  Even if someone else puts yabbs up somewhere else, it will
have a slightly different nature, a slightly different character.
It will be a different bbs.

There is nothing inherently wrong with this.  The new bbs could
have a strong, if not stronger, sense of community than yabbs
presently does.  The change may be so subtle that few but the oldest
of the old-timers even notice.  But to deny that it is different
is just not true.

And perhaps appropriately, the name of the mailing list, 'yabbs-is-dead',
is like a good many other things on yabbs, it is a joke.

-k