Shutdown of boston-radio-interest list

[Bob DeMattia]

It's not so much how the group is configured but all the stuff you have to
get through to actually see it.
A mailing list is simple email that you get in your inbox and respond to in
your email client.

-Bob

On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 9:57 PM Ted Larsen <tlmedia9@gmail.com> wrote:

> There are many ways to configure a Facebook Group. They be public or
> private. I'd be happy to act as an Administrator to make sure only relevant
> content is posted. We could have a couple of administrators if the group
> actually became popular. Here are a couple I follow.
>
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/1138347909599014
>
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/931009353631548
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 9:01 PM billohno@gmail.com <billohno@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > That could work.
> >
> > > On Dec 1, 2023, at 8:33 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
> > >>
> > >>
> >
>