Thumbs Up to this (I forgot the excursion to the Great Day site!) ... and didn't the BNBB ultimately cease to exist at all?  For a corporate owned BB it was pretty freewheeling before Norah Jones fans discovered there were people who weren't that impressed with her.

I like Myron Cohen now more than ever. You don't hear a voice like that in comedy these days 

My memory is that March 3, 2003, or 3/3/03, was the “catastrophic event” date when EMI implemented a reset of the Blue Note board, eliminating about half of the forums, installing clunky censoring software, and making other changes that deeply alienated the core community. There was a mass migration to AAJ that soured quickly, then another to a bulletin board on the Great Day in Harlem website, and finally Organissimo, after Jim offered to retool the band’s existing forum to resemble the BNBB. Iirc Jim Sangrey was an early advocate for making this board our new home, especially because it was run by a musician. That was almost 23 years ago! I sure do miss a lot of the regulars who’ve passed away or departed, but am also glad to see how many of the long-march veterans are still around in the age of Reddit and Substack and whatever else that’s coming along next in the next few years.