Shutdown of boston-radio-interest list

[~Bill]

The link below, should bring you right to the Groups Home page, after creating an account, re-click on the link

> https://groups.io/g/Boston-Radio-Interest <


-----Original Message-----
From: Boston-Radio-Interest [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of A Joseph Ross
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2023 4:47 PM
To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
Subject: Re: Shutdown of boston-radio-interest list

I tried to join and got a message from lists.io inviting me there. I got on there, created a password, but I couldn't find the new radio group anywhere to join it.  For some reason I also haven't gotten a copy of my most recent post to this list, either.

On 12/2/2023 9:14 PM, Bob DeMattia wrote:
> OK, it seems like there is enough interest from what I see in this 
> thread and also some DM's I received, so I've gone ahead and created 
> the group.  For the people that have participated in this latest 
> thread, I've taken the liberty of sending an personal invitation via 
> email.
>
> For those who don't receive the invitation, you can join the group here:
>
> https://groups.io/g/Boston-Radio-Interest
>
>
> Thanks to Garrett for the many years keeping this list together, and 
> to everyone that participated and providing interesting content.  
> Let's hope the new platform will continue to have value.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bob
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 6:53 PM Tim Gordon<tgordo49@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>

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A. Joseph Ross
Brookline, MA

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