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Pay for Rare Bird Alert...surely not?

To: Peter Shute <>
Subject: Pay for Rare Bird Alert...surely not?
From: David Stowe <>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:42:47 +1100
What if the rarity is also in a remote place just down the road from where you are????? Plenty of good birding spots that are in remote locations that are relatively well travelled by birders. I'd be even more annoyed if i had made a trip all the way to the Kimberley or Cape etc only to find that i had missed something while i was there.

Dave

On 06/11/2009, at 2:14 PM, Peter Shute wrote:

Several people have mentioned the problem of receiving email in remote areas, e.g. via an iPhone, etc. I'm wondering how important this is to most people. If you're in a remote area, are you going to be willing to drop everything and go somewhere to see a bird somewhere else?

I would have thought you'd only be interested if the alert was for something close by (in which case you'd be very annoyed to have been so close but to have missed it). But what are the chances of that? I'm guessing that usually it would be ok to wait until you can get email again.

I'm just guessing about this, I'm rarely out of range for long myself, unfortunately.

Peter Shute

Simon Mustoe wrote on Thursday, 5 November 2009 9:06 AM:

Then, there is no guarantee people would even receive the news.
IPhone or not, you don't log on all day every day and you certainly
don't can't use an iPhone in much of the outback - though you can get
mobile reception, though GPRS is going to be costing you the
equivalent of satellite bandwidth (~$10 / MB).
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