A modern, user friendly newsgroup is relevant here, as we start building new dish antennas, COTS 12GHz downlink receivers, etc. See the nice, modern AMSAT-DL forum. So much easier to share knowledge with images, videos and easy searches. I understand this AMSAT BB was probably created way back when in the 1970's or earlier. It shows. But I understand that "it was always like this."
Having to put up links to pictures, is archaic. I used to host all my pictures on Photobucket for free, and link to them. Now, I cannot access them unless I pay. (New management, I guess.) So, I lost interest, and the password....
KC9SGV
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On Aug 22, 2019, at 3:41 PM, Peter Goodhall (2M0SQL) peter@magicbug.co.uk wrote:
Not quite sure how discussing how the newsgroups is run is relevant to the thread.
I'm personally a fan of pain text emails which no attachments more so as I don't have to worry about infected files, I'm not on 10+ newsgroups I'm on 3 they are all run by the group's independent of third parties.
This suits most of the content posted. images could easily be shared by the likes of OneDrive, Dropbox etc.
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, 21:34 KC9SGV via AMSAT-BB, amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote: Yup, I agree. IO Groups. Like this following group.... Easy attachments, pictures, videos, etc. Get your point across with images and proof. "A picture is worth a thousand words." https://groups.io/g/Winlink The moderator is a very nice, laid back guy.
Bernard.
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On Aug 22, 2019, at 2:46 PM, Dave via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Not to derail the conversation but groups.io is very easy to use. You can just send and receive email to the group if you don't want to use the web interface. Searches are so much easier than this archaic list and I would guess that most hams with any technical interest already belong to at least one or twenty io or yahoo groups and are familiar with them.
Dave N2OA
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:09 PM JoAnne K9JKM via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
Grrrr.. Replies to the list via email with pictures attached get wiped ! We need a modern BB or forum like AMSAT-DL....
A large number of members have previously said they prefer a plain e-mail list without the overhead of huge files with JPG attachments or needing to figure out how to navigate yet another forum layout. The amsat-bb has 2425 e-mail addresses on the subscriber list.
Other AMSAT internet venues which allow posting photos include:
AMSAT on Facebook with 3149 group members who can post photos (and 5233 likes of the page).
AMSAT on Twitter has ~14,600 followers.
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