To your last point, I look at it differently. Having a place where satellite information like this is freely available, and accessible outside of an email list could greatly improve people who are just getting into radio ability to learn about satellites.
Times are changing, and we shouldn't fight it.
If we don't want the hobby to die, let alone the satellite "sub hobby" I think we should use the changing the changing technology to our advantage. Fighting it is only going to make the hobby less appealing to youths like myself.
On Jan 28, 2025, at 09:08, Zach Metzinger via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:
On 1/28/25 04:22, Matthew Alberti via AMSAT-BB wrote:
Another idea for discussion is to migrate to a forum site and sunset the e-mail distributions altogether.
Hello Matthew,
I am completely opposed to migrating amsat-bb to a "forum".
I have a multitude of reasons behind this reaction:
Content/data should be accessible via many paths, not just a website front-end or an "app". I have yet to see forum software which provides either an IMAP or NNTP protocol interface so that I can use my preferred email client to interact with it. No, I don't want to load yet another gee-whiz app on my phone when my email client works great right now.
A forum-style system (let's call it a BBS, shall we?) requires far more infrastructure than a simple mailing list. Likewise, the required administrative load goes up with a forum versus an email list.
We begin to introduce more radio-unfriendly content/features and increase dependence on the commercial Internet. It is my position that we should be _reducing_ our dependence on the Internet (and the associated commercial carriers) for all amateur radio/satellite traffic. This mailing list, along with other AMSAT-related information, should be disseminated using Amateur Radio resources such as our upcoming Pacsat platform.
73,
--- Zach N0ZGO
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