OMG - this bickering is unbelievable
When I got involved with ham radio almost 45 years ago (I was 14), I was told not to talk about religion, politics, etc, I can't believe how things have changed
I joined this group to understand Sats, and I have learned a lot (thanks), but I am on the verge of unsubscribing. I am not interested in hearing people's views on DEI, MAGA, which apps to use etc! I know this is a US-focused site, but many members (like me) aren't American.
Some people here are acting like petulant children.
No wonder people don't want to be hams
THIS IS A HOBBY! MOVE ON
Chris VR2ZSS/VK4AX
On 28 Jan 2025, at 10:07 PM, Zach Metzinger via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:
On 1/28/25 04:22, Matthew Alberti via AMSAT-BB wrote:
Another idea for discussion is to migrate to a forum site and sunset the e-mail distributions altogether.
Hello Matthew,
I am completely opposed to migrating amsat-bb to a "forum".
I have a multitude of reasons behind this reaction:
Content/data should be accessible via many paths, not just a website front-end or an "app". I have yet to see forum software which provides either an IMAP or NNTP protocol interface so that I can use my preferred email client to interact with it. No, I don't want to load yet another gee-whiz app on my phone when my email client works great right now.
A forum-style system (let's call it a BBS, shall we?) requires far more infrastructure than a simple mailing list. Likewise, the required administrative load goes up with a forum versus an email list.
We begin to introduce more radio-unfriendly content/features and increase dependence on the commercial Internet. It is my position that we should be _reducing_ our dependence on the Internet (and the associated commercial carriers) for all amateur radio/satellite traffic. This mailing list, along with other AMSAT-related information, should be disseminated using Amateur Radio resources such as our upcoming Pacsat platform.
73,
--- Zach N0ZGO
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