[AMSAT-BB] Re: Proposed shutdown of ftp.amsat.org file server

Thanks for your comments Floyd. As a practical matter we have given up on the FTP server as a central repository long ago. You will be hard pressed to find many files dated within the last 10 years. Some of the content available on the FTP site is already served up the web server too, we will simply add the rest before FTP is shut down, so you need not worry about losing history.

I don't have a formal accounting of the effort required to administer the server, but it is certainly not free, especially now when we are planning for server moves. There is little appetite to spend any more scarce volunteer effort on an obsolete, seldom used system.

de KM1P Joe