Folk music email groups

25 Jun 22 - 04:28 PM (#4145424)
Subject: Folk music email groups
From: GUEST,Leadbottom

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

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26 Jun 22 - 12:22 PM (#4145501)
Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: GUEST

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"

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26 Jun 22 - 01:03 PM (#4145504)
Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: Reinhard

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.

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26 Jun 22 - 01:07 PM (#4145506)
Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: GUEST,Leadbottom

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

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26 Jun 22 - 03:04 PM (#4145519)
Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: Stilly River Sage

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.

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26 Jun 22 - 03:17 PM (#4145525)
Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: DaveRo

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.

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26 Jun 22 - 03:52 PM (#4145532)
Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: DaveRo

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

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16 Dec 23 - 05:14 AM (#4193652)
Subject: RE: Folk music email groups - USENET
From: DaveRo

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'.

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09 Jan 24 - 02:50 AM (#4195158)
Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: DaveRo

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

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14 Jan 24 - 01:47 PM (#4195435)
Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: Stilly River Sage

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.

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15 Jan 24 - 06:46 AM (#4195466)
Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: GUEST

The Traditional Song Forum has an email list.

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15 Jan 24 - 09:45 AM (#4195478)
Subject: RE: Folk music email groups
From: DaveRo

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

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