On 10/1/2014 4:54 PM, Jeff Yanko wrote:

I can see how this could be construed and not pertaining to amateur radio satellites. However, since this topic was highlighted and brought to everyone's attention by an AMSAT member, and linking a legitimate website, this would be an opportune time for the AMSAT President or member of the board to directly contact this outlet and refute such allegations and misunderstandings. If nobody in authority stands up to this, we'll just keep getting a bad rap and it could damage our future endeavors through payload restrictions.

73,

Jeff WB3JFS

On 10/1/2014 4:29 PM, Gus wrote:

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The point is, if you post a message with a completely generic subject (like "Interesting Article") and a body text consisting entirely of a URL and not even a callsign in your signature, then it is indistinguishable from SPAM. Under the circumstances how was someone to know that this linked to anything of interest to a ham radio operator, and not to some porno site or a credit card scam or similar?