Shutdown of boston-radio-interest list

[A Joseph Ross]

I tried to join and got a message from lists.io inviting me there. I got 
on there, created a password, but I couldn't find the new radio group 
anywhere to join it.  For some reason I also haven't gotten a copy of my 
most recent post to this list, either.

On 12/2/2023 9:14 PM, Bob DeMattia 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
>>>>>
>>>>>

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A. Joseph Ross
Brookline, MA

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