Hi Joe,
My apologies - I didn't mean to state the obvious, or make light of any technical or operational difficulties with respect to email.
Personally, I haven't used groups.io enough myself to either recommend it or not recommend it, but I can imagine the tagging and group-like features of groups.io might bridge the gap between those AMSAT members who like traditional email lists and those who favour more of a conference-like system. Other members may have had more in-depth with groups.io or other systems and be prepared to champion one system over another.
Again, speaking personally, I would just phase-out the email aliasing service.
Thanks to you and everyone else at AMSAT for all your work!
73 Ken VA7KBM
On 7/16/2020 9:54 AM, Joseph B. Fitzgerald wrote:
Ken, VA7KBM wrote:
... AMSAT should consider a more modern email list system.
Presently the IT crew is working on migrating our servers off the existing Linux distribution which goes end-of-life in November to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This will result in a change to GNU Mailman 3.0 ... more modern but not exactly a quantum leap. Now would be a great time for a fleshed out proposal for something else since it would be hard on the users to switch again in another year or whatever. I have looked at groups.io a little bit in the past, and it seems to be run by "good guys". Don't wait for "AMSAT" to consider alternatives, you guys are AMSAT, so put together a good proposal and convince people.
... It's generally not a good idea for most small organizations to run their own email servers these days - too much security and technical overhead, and who needs that?
I surely don't need that and I am one of they guys that directly deals with that overhead. That being said, an issue that trips me up every time I look at having someone else run things is the e-mail alias service we provide to anyone with a callsign. We have somewhere around 16,000 users of that service and I know of no economically viable way to do that except on our own servers.
de KM1P Joe