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

[VA7KBM]

Hi Joe,

My apologies - I didn't mean to state the obvious, or make light of any 
technical or operational difficulties with respect to email.

Personally, I haven't used groups.io enough myself to either recommend 
it or not recommend it, but I can imagine the tagging and group-like 
features of groups.io might bridge the gap between those AMSAT members 
who like traditional email lists and those who favour more of a 
conference-like system. Other members may have had more in-depth with 
groups.io or other systems and be prepared to champion one system over 
another.

Again, speaking personally, I would just phase-out the email aliasing 
service.

Thanks to you and everyone else at AMSAT for all your work!

73 Ken VA7KBM

On 7/16/2020 9:54 AM, Joseph B. Fitzgerald wrote:
> Ken,  VA7KBM wrote:
>> ... AMSAT should consider a more modern email list system.
> Presently the IT crew is working on migrating our servers off the existing Linux distribution which goes end-of-life in November to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.    This will result in a change to GNU Mailman 3.0 ... more modern but not exactly a quantum leap.   Now would be a great time for a fleshed out proposal for something else since it would be hard on the users to switch again in another year or whatever.   I have looked at groups.io a little bit in the past, and it seems to be run by "good guys".    Don't wait for "AMSAT" to consider alternatives, you guys are AMSAT, so put together a good proposal and convince people.
>
>> ... It's generally not a good idea
>> for most small organizations to run their own email servers these days -
>> too much security and technical overhead, and who needs that?
> I surely don't need that and I am one of they guys that directly deals with that overhead.   That being said, an issue that trips me up every time I look at having someone else run things is the e-mail alias service we provide to anyone with a callsign.    We have somewhere around 16,000 users of that service and I know of no economically viable way to do that except on our own servers.
>
> de KM1P Joe