Re: [bomp] The Decline Of The Bomp List

[Blair Buscareno <blairb@xxxxxxx>]

hoodoo3005@aol.com wrote:
> <<  I'd hafta' agree with whoever said that participation dropped off sharply 
> after we lost Greg Shaw.  There were many, many flame wars and other shit-storms 
> prior to that, and none of them created a lull like we're seeing now.
>    
>   Personally, I like to think we honor Greg Shaw by keeping a list like this 
> going.  I can understand how some folks might see it differently.>>
> ...including Greg Shaw himself, who disassociated himself with the list when the going got rough.
>
>   

I don't remember exactly when Greg left.  As I recall, it was more that 
he lost interest.  Early on, he was a heavy contributor to the list.  
While that dropped off to almost nothing over time, he'd still pop up on 
occasion.  Eventually, yes, I guess he was gone, but... He was there for 
a long time.

Personally, I think he left because the list didn't go in a direction he 
was interested in.  Greg once wrote that his original idea for this list 
was for it to be something like a live version of Bomp magazine, where 
people would write in letters and scene reports.  Sadly, that never 
happened.  I tried to start something like that a few years ago, as a 
YahooGroup called NoPlaceFast.  The idea was that people would submit 
articles and my co-moderator and I would act as editors.  Unfortunately, 
we got relatively few submissions.

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