Slack vs. eMail -- The medium is the message
Something for the new BOD to consider. I have been monitoring/lurking AMSAT-BB for years, and still have to go to the archives to read a thread, cut and paste an e-mail to contribute. I still have not figured out its clunkiness. It may be a barrier to new tech types. I am old school and it seems archaic to me.
I am using Groups.io and I am the owner/moderator of two mail lists over there. ICOM-IC-970@groups.io and ICOM-ICR-9000@groups.io. (Welcome aboard if interested)
This is a very flexible system and has both an e-mail and web interface. It was designed to replace yahoo groups which declined into self destruction by yahoo. For my purposes, they run themselves.
I recommend considering it for AMSAT-BB.
Initially there will be some noise from folks in bandwidth challenged areas, but once they read the instructions and set their accounts appropriately it will work fine.
My accounts are free. For a very large organization there may be a subscription cost. It may be possible to have the archives converted and embedded into the list. If not, they can be stored in the files area or linked to their current location. If the change is made, be sure to redirect or block new submissions to the old system so there is thread continuity.
Feel free to subscribe to mine and check out the features.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:22 PM Joe Leikhim via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Something for the new BOD to consider. I have been monitoring/lurking AMSAT-BB for years, and still have to go to the archives to read a thread, cut and paste an e-mail to contribute. I still have not figured out its clunkiness. It may be a barrier to new tech types. I am old school and it seems archaic to me.
In addition to its own archives, amsat-bb used to be archived at mail-archive.com here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/amsat-bb@amsat.org/
For whatever reason, that seems to have stopped in 2014. If we could get that restarted, that would be useful, since it has a pretty good Advanced Search capability.
Martin. KD6YAM
I am using Groups.io and I am the owner/moderator of two mail lists over there. ICOM-IC-970@groups.io and ICOM-ICR-9000@groups.io. (Welcome aboard if interested)
This is a very flexible system and has both an e-mail and web interface. It was designed to replace yahoo groups which declined into self destruction by yahoo. For my purposes, they run themselves.
I recommend considering it for AMSAT-BB.
Initially there will be some noise from folks in bandwidth challenged areas, but once they read the instructions and set their accounts appropriately it will work fine.
My accounts are free. For a very large organization there may be a subscription cost. It may be possible to have the archives converted and embedded into the list. If not, they can be stored in the files area or linked to their current location. If the change is made, be sure to redirect or block new submissions to the old system so there is thread continuity.
Feel free to subscribe to mine and check out the features.
-- Joe Leikhim
Leikhim and Associates
Communications Consultants
Oviedo, Florida
JLeikhim@Leikhim.com
407-982-0446
WWW.LEIKHIM.COM
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https://www.mail-archive.com/amsat-bb@amsat.org/ For whatever reason, that seems to have stopped in 2014.
Perhaps these archives might be what you are looking for? https://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/
Perhaps these archives might be what you are looking for? https://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/
No, the problem is that those native mailman archives, while complete, are not searchable.
The mail-archive.com archives have a proper Advanced Search option. That's pretty much why mail-archive.com exists. It would be easy to get amsat-bb added again, but I don't know if there's a reason they were stopped in 2014.
Martin. KD6YAM
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