It was nice knowing you, LAB.

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Ben P. <blersia@gmai...> wrote:

> Barring unanimous objection, I plan to permanently end the presence of
> Lincoln-and-Beyond on Google Groups this evening.
>
> I think we all know that closing this chapter -- hell, let's call it a
> novel -- has been a long time coming.  LAB was created on September
> 15, 2004, when the original members were in high school, mostly at
> Lincoln Southwest.  For years, it served us well as a means to shoot
> the breeze and keep in touch in a unique way.  Since then, the
> prosperity of LAB has tapered off, and what slowly became a trickle
> has turned into a desert.  I could say something about LAB's purpose
> being superseded by the growth and advancement of social networking
> tools like Facebook, but I feel that something natural -- the course
> of life -- has more to do with it.  As has always been the case, there
> are many avenues we can choose to contact each other, but nothing can
> replace what exactly LAB meant to us at one point, in terms of the
> atmosphere and the experience.  And because of this, the fact that our
> lives have changed so much in the past nearly six years makes the
> notion of LAB today, in any form, seem expired.
>
> The group itself will be gone, but all that means is that a group
> that's already been defunct in practice will become technically and
> officially defunct.  Of course the LAB archives can still be picked
> through on the web, and with as many places as they're backed up,
> that's not going to change any time soon.  I feel that officially
> ending LAB cements it into a definite historical mold, rather than a
> ghost town with a skeleton post office that refuses to cease
> operation.  I hope that others will see the entire removal of the
> group as a more dignified finality than simply letting LAB continue to
> exist as a void.
>
> This may well be my last post to Lincoln-and-Beyond.  If you desire,
> feel free to post in the next few hours... it's not over 'til it's
> over.
>
> Best of luck in the future.  Hope to see many of you around.
>
> Bittersweetly,
> Ben P.
>
> --
> "The universe is shaped exactly like the earth; if you go straight
> along enough, you'll end up where you were."
> -Isaac Brock
>
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