[amsat-bb] Emails from AMSAT Website

[John]

To further add to this point, many of us do not have time to constantly
refresh and browse a web forum, whereas an e-mail list effectively pushes
each update to you one at a time, allowing a much easier use format.

I stopped using forums years ago, but still read e-mail reflectors as they
come in with all my other e-mail in one useful place.

73,

John (XLX)

-----Original Message-----
From: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org> On Behalf Of Larry Howell
Sent: 30 May 2018 03:48
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Emails from AMSAT Website

Both an email list and a forum are useful to many of us who have a broadband
Internet connection.  However, I have friends only 40 miles away in rural
areas that can't use a web-based forum because they have limited bandwidth
DSL or dial-up connections.  Web-based applications are too slow to update
to be of any use to them.  If the email goes away, they're effectively cut
off.

Larry AC8YE

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:30 PM, John Brier <johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't mind sticking with the email list. We have web forums if you 
> need to do fancy formatting:
>
> https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?forums/satellite-and-
> space-communications.69/
>
> I believe recently someone had trouble formatting something here so 
> they posted it there and linked to it from here. It happens so 
> infrequently I don't think it's worth the change.
>
> I have amsat-bb go straight to my inbox unfiltered because I like to 
> stay up on AMSAT activities. I also have notifications on the QRZ 
> satellite forum, but I have to leave my email app on my phone to do 
> anything with it, and the web interface isn't great on mobile IIRC. Email
is simple and easy.
>
> They each have their merits.
>
> 73, John Brier KG4AKV
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 7:49 PM, Ken M <va7kbm at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > These and many other email issues are why, IMHO, the current 
> > old-style AMSAT mailing list should be converted to a more modern 
> > web-based forum that can be organized by topic.
> >
> > 73 Ken VA7KBM
> >
> > On May 29, 2018, at 2:28 PM, Zach Metzinger <zmetzing at pobox.com<mailto:
> zme
> > tzing at pobox.com>> wrote:
> >
> > On 05/29/18 16:33, Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL wrote:
> > And just as a side note, when the email issue is solved, another 
> > re-look at why some messages come through with no CR or line feeds.
> > (ie. formatting)
> >
> > Hello Vince,
> >
> > This is likely a side-effect of the MIME processing in your email 
> > client. Mike's email was base64 encoded and sent to the list by 
> > Thunderbird 52.8.0 (from headers).
> >
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
> > <...>
> > TWUgdG9vLCBObyByZXBseSEKCk1pa2UsIEFCOVYKCgpPbiA1LzI5LzIwMTgg
> > MTU6MjYgUE0sIFNj
> > b3R0IHdyb3RlOgo+IFRoYW5rcyBmb3IgdGhlIGluZm8sIF
> > BhdWwhCj4KPiBBcyBhIGNoZWNrLCBJ
> > IHRyaWVkIHRvIGxvZyBpbiBhbmQgbXkgY3VycmVudCBwYXNzd29yZCB3YXMg
> > bm90IGFjY2VwdGVk
> > Lgo+Cj4gSSBjbGlja2VkIHRoZSBQYXNzd29yZCBSZXNldCBidXR0b24gYW5kIGl0
> > IGluZGljYXRl
> >
> > This "line noise" is reconstituted into his email message at your 
> > end and laid out on your screen by your email program.
> >
> > Mike's email shows up just fine for me in Thunderbird 45.5.1 and 
> > Mutt
> > 1.7.1 (2016-10-04).
> >
> > Have you tried looking at his message using your provider's web mail 
> > interface? Does it look correct there?
> >
> > --- Zach
> > N0ZGO
> >
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