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On Jul 20, 2020, 17:30, at 17:30, Martin Cooper via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>> Again, speaking personally, I would just phase-out the email aliasing
>> service.
>
>That would be a huge problem for many of the people who use it. Just
>taking
>away the e-mail alias itself would mean breaking countless links around
>the
>web - for example in many years of e-mail archives across numerous
>discussion lists, where people could no longer reply to the author of a
>message they found in those archives. Also, e-mail addresses are used
>for
>much more than just sending mail. They're used for account ids on
>websites,
>account ids in source control systems, account ids in bug tracking
>systems,
>and much more. And in the ham world, using your callsign is perhaps a
>more
>common means of id than your name, so having callsign at amsat.org is an
>easy
>way for people to reach you. (No doubt someone will mention @arrl.net
>as an
>alternative, but that requires membership in ARRL, and not everyone is,
>or
>wants to be, a member of that organisation.)
>
>Martin.
>KD6YAM
>
>
>On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 4:55 PM VA7KBM via AMSAT-BB
><amsat-bb at amsat.org>
>wrote:
>
>> 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
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