Folk music email groups

Subject: Folk music email groups
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 04:28 PM

Are there any email groups that I might view, read and post on?

Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 06:21 PM

Try:

rec.music.folk

It will run through its current sponsor bigGoo.
Previous Alta Vista

There is perhaps, a facinaring story about the DG, DT, X connection.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Back in the UseNet/NewsNet 150 baud modem days it was were I found the DT hosted in Palo Alto (think Lyland Sanford Jr) by Xerox Corp.

Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 12:22 PM

What's the story. I'm unfamiliar with how to join an email group. What can I do with the info you posted? "rec.music.folk"

Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: Reinhard
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 01:03 PM

I used to frequent rec.music.folk decades ago when it was a thriving Usenet News group. I haven't thought about it for a long time but have just looked it up. Seems it's a discussion group on Google now with about three threads per month and most of the postings done by a person who seems to be completely bonkers. E.g. he claims to be a "matchmaker" and discusses the sexual compatibility of certain musical and political celebrities. Just keep away from that.

Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 01:07 PM

I'm thinking about starting an email group for folk music.

Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 03:04 PM

Are you talking about using a Listserv program to distribute email? They still exist out there. Here's a "how to use" item from the University of Iowa from last year. You'd need to host or have an organization affiliation that would let you set one up on their site. I ran a couple of these lists for several years at a university - back in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: DaveRo
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 03:17 PM

rec.music.folk (and uk.music.folk) - which are not email groups and are nothing to do wifh Google - still exist and I still monitor them - and v e r y occasionally post. But they're mostly derelict at the moment. They just need people to start posting again.

On Windows you can use a dedicated usenet client, such as Free Agent, or Mozilla Thunderbird, and a free usenet account from eternal-september. On iOS there is a client called NewsTap - I've not used it. There are still active usenet grouos, but not for folk music. But when Mudcat dies, usenet will still be there.

Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: DaveRo
Date: 26 Jun 22 - 03:52 PM

Free Agent, which was the free version of Forté Agent, seems to be extinct.

List of usenet clients

Thunderbird is a safe choice - soon to be updated to v102 - see the (active) usenet group alt.comp.software.thunderbird

Subject: RE: Folk music email groups - USENET
From: DaveRo
Date: 16 Dec 23 - 05:14 AM

In February 2024 Google is shutting down its usenet groups. This is good news because 99.99% of spam is posted through Google.
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.folk

You can continue to read usenet through Narkive's web interface - and post too, I think, if you register:
https://rec.music.folk.narkive.com/

There are still active usenet groups, but the folk music ones are unused. The occasional real question does get answered, so there are quite a few people still subscribed.

Newsreaders - e.g. Thunderbird - are mentioned upthread. To post get a free account from Eternal-September
https://www.eternal-september.org/

There's a list of newsgroups in 'Hierarchies' - search for e.g. 'music'.

Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: DaveRo
Date: 09 Jan 24 - 02:50 AM

Today on usenet, an answer to a question from 1994

Subject: Re: Music for "I Bid You Goodnight"
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: Nathan Sarvis

On Tuesday, December 6, 1994 at 7:42:34 AM UTC-6, John Weber wrote:
> Greetings,
> I'm looking for a source for the lyrics and chords for a song titled
> "I Bid You Goodnight". I don't know the artist, but its played as the
> closing
> tune on the WGBH Folk Heritage show Saturday afternoon. That's probably not
> much to go on, but I'll appreciate any and all help.
> Thanks,
> /John
Music with chords and tab for the original hymn here:
https://www.music-folk-play-hymns.com/Christians-Goodnight.html

Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jan 24 - 01:47 PM

It's amazing you can still read some of those sites any more. So many of the groups (managed by Yahoo or Google, Angel Fire, etc.,) have completely vanished.

Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jan 24 - 06:46 AM

The Traditional Song Forum has an email list.

Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: DaveRo
Date: 15 Jan 24 - 09:45 AM

The Traditional Song Forum Mailing list is here:
https://groups.io/g/tradsong *

You can read the topics with this link:
https://groups.io/g/tradsong/topics

There is an RSS feed link on that page too which gives new posts.

* The link on the TSF website is wrong