[amsat-bb] Let’s talk satellites

[Paul F. Merrill]

1) We need a separate mailing list for campaign issues in campaign season.
The back and forth is valuable because I’ve seen one candidate who I’m very
glad to not have voted for, more than one I can’t wait to vote against, and
clues as to the personal integrity of others.  Useful information, but it
doesn’t need to be diluting operational satellite conversations, mentoring,
and other useful information.

2) I’d throw a vote in for a different communication platform than this
legacy bbs format - apparently even very smart people who can get little
flying repeaters into orbit can’t understand how to trim their messages -
the digests and nearly unreadable when someone posts a three word comment
over 400 lines of nested emails.

3) For the pedants among us, yes...I know that I can view the threads in
the browser, but when I rejoined AMSAT earlier in the year, I was very
enthusiastic at how much useful information I gleaned from the daily
digests - lately...not so much.