On 6/29/2011 5:14 AM, Thomas Doyle wrote: > Very happy to see AMSAT on Facebook. I sent in a request to join. > What would brighten my day even more is a threaded discussion group. > I am sure most of us have used a Yahoo group. It is nice to be able to > group postings by subject. It is also helpful to be able to search. What's wrong with using a mail client that can exactly do that? Also just archive the postings to the mailing list and voila instant search on your desktop even without Internet access if you store local instead of on your mail server. By moving all that to Facebook you would force people to sign up and use a platform they may not agree with instead of keeping it open. Facebook is a closed system where nothing gets out. Forget searching Google for something AMSAT related and finding it on Facebook. Modern mail clients can already accomplish all you're asking for without change in infrastructure and also without giving up the open nature of standards based communication.
Just my $0.02 Mike K5TRI _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
