Shutdown of boston-radio-interest list

[Ted Larsen]

 This is an example of a Facebook Group, "Remembering WBZ "
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1005052386250309

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
>>
>>