Shutdown of boston-radio-interest list

[Bob DeMattia]

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
>>
>>