Shutdown of boston-radio-interest list

[Sean Smyth]

Facebook isn’t a dying platform, but it’s a limiting one. Also I’m not sure
how many members would want to have it publicly visible that they belong to
such a group. It might cause a problem for them in the workplace or
elsewhere. The advantage here is Garrett has the entire membership list
under lock and key.

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On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 8:31 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
> >
> >
>