Shutdown of boston-radio-interest list

[Tim Gordon]

Yes, please do! FB is awful. Groups.io is simple and clean.
Bless you!


On Fri, Dec 1, 2023, 9:52 PM Bob DeMattia <bob.bosra@demattia.net> wrote:

> IMHO, Facebook is bloatware.  Way too much additional content.  Not too
> crazy about all the personal information they collect either.
>
> groups.io is a simple mailing list much like what we have here.
>
> Garrett: I wouldn't try to export the current list.  I'd simply create the
> group over there and send the instructions on this list on how to join.
> People who want to do it can, the others will ride off into the sunset.
>
> But if we do this, we want to make sure we only make one....
>
> I'll volunteer to set it up  if the group here wants me to.
>
> -Bob
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 8:30 PM Ted Larsen <tlmedia9@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >>
> >>
>