Shutdown of boston-radio-interest list

[Martin Waters]

    I just happily joined the io group. And thank you for doing that.

    And pardon me for mentioning facebook! I was reminded with a big slap that there are many never-facebook people out there, and not without good cause, including a bunch of people I know.

     But I have found it a good place to reconnect with people I have not been in touch with for many years. I think of it as place where I try to hide out in my own little corner of it and use if for my pleasant purposes. And, as I said, there are several New England-centric facebook groups dedicated to radio that the folks on here would find interesting. It is possible to mitigate some of the facebook garbage using settings, etc.--Marty Waters

      "On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run
       about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
       
        -- Hunter S. Thompson






On Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 09:15:46 PM EST, Bob DeMattia <bob.bosra@demattia.net> 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
> > >>
> > >>
> >
>