Very happy to see AMSAT on Facebook. I sent in a request to join. What would brighten my day even more is a threaded discussion group. I am sure most of us have used a Yahoo group. It is nice to be able to group postings by subject. It is also helpful to be able to search.
The reduction in clutter would be most welcome. Imagine having all the Field Day postings located in one thread so they could be ignored by those not interested in the subject or read with great interest by those who feel strongly about it.
Facebook and our old school bulletin board are great for Twitter type postings that have no long or in some cases short term value but a threaded group would offer the possibility of long term access to information.
On 6/29/2011 5:14 AM, Thomas Doyle wrote:
Very happy to see AMSAT on Facebook. I sent in a request to join. What would brighten my day even more is a threaded discussion group. I am sure most of us have used a Yahoo group. It is nice to be able to group postings by subject. It is also helpful to be able to search.
What's wrong with using a mail client that can exactly do that? Also just archive the postings to the mailing list and voila instant search on your desktop even without Internet access if you store local instead of on your mail server. By moving all that to Facebook you would force people to sign up and use a platform they may not agree with instead of keeping it open. Facebook is a closed system where nothing gets out. Forget searching Google for something AMSAT related and finding it on Facebook. Modern mail clients can already accomplish all you're asking for without change in infrastructure and also without giving up the open nature of standards based communication.
Just my $0.02
Mike K5TRI
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