Shutdown of boston-radio-interest list

[Ted Larsen]

This may be too simplistic, but why not more this entire platform to
Facebook? There are already several Facebook Groups dedicated to radio;
WBZ, WMEX, NEW ENGLAND RADIO STATIONS and probably many more.

Anyway, that's my suggestion.

On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 5:28 PM Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
wrote:

> <<On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 17:21:02 -0500, Bob DeMattia <bob.bosra@demattia.net>
> said:
>
> > Is there any interest in restarting the function of the list on
> groups.io?
> > I'm on that platform for bunch of other lists, and it seems to be clean.
> > Management of a groups.io group takes very little effort.
>
> If anyone wants to do that, they're welcome to.  I will not share the
> subscriber list, however, because (1) I was never given permission to
> do so, and (2) there are a lot of unattended or invalid mailboxes on
> it.
>
> My own interest remains at this point pretty firmly in the history and
> not the present; I can't remember the last time I intentionally put on
> live radio, and that's a big part of why I am trying to wind down the
> most high-effort, low-reward part of bostonradio.org.  (Only a month
> ago I had to shut down the "where am I?" service when the FCC
> discontinued publishing its database in the format the site depended
> on -- before that point, the daily database updates were the
> highest-effort part of the site, but keeping mail delivery working in
> today's Internet is a very close second.)
>
> -GAWollman
>
>