[amsat-bb] Slack vs. eMail -- The medium is the message

[Sterling Mann]

I would not be a fan if the email list was removed in lieu of chat. They
coexist well in many venues. Email is good for some things, chat is good
for other things.

I was going to suggest Discord too, but A.) it's already been suggested B.)
it's already been found at fault for something C.) I see that someone else
already started a Discord AMSAT server (
https://signal-lounge.com/2020/05/23/new-discord-server-for-amateur-satellite-amsat/)
(although the link is invalid).

Also, this conversation sounds eerily familiar...oh yea:
https://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2018-March/067425.html

73,
Sterling N0SSC

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:00 PM Joseph B. Fitzgerald via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> For those that would like to develop proposals for alternatives to
> amsat-bb, note that there are presently 2550 subscribers. Turning off the
> mailing lists does not avoid any marginal costs - running GNU Mailman
> consumes only a tiny fraction of a single server's resources.
>
> de KM1P Joe
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