Greetings.
COG's Executive has decided to update the list rules. I will be
grateful if all subscribers will read the revised version,
below.
Please
send any queries or comments directly to me rather than to the
full list.
With thanks - David
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CanberraBirds,
COG’s email-based announcement and discussion list
The Canberra Ornithologists Groups email-based
announcement and discussion list, CanberraBirds, has been
operating successfully since 1999. It has around 260 subscribers
and distributes about 10 emails per day, on average.
Both COG members and non-members are welcome to subscribe and
participate in the lists discussions. If you find the list of
interest and value, please consider joining COG. Details of how to
do so are online at http://canberrabirds.org.au/AboutCOG.htm
.
List
rules
The list has a few simple rules that guide its
operation. These stress the overarching importance of subscribers
treating other list participants with respect and avoiding
inappropriate language and behaviour so that participation remains
enjoyable for everyone. It is important that new subscribers, and
people new to birding, are made to feel welcome.
Messages
sent
to the CanberraBirds email list SHOULD NOT
· Be
of a purely commercial nature.
· Contain
defamatory, offensive, hurtful or inappropriate language.
· Contain
personal attacks—discuss the message, do not attack the messenger.
· Contain
any photographs of identifiable individuals unless they have given
their explicit permission for their images to be sent to the list.
· Include
one-to-one private email conversations, unless all authors of
those conversations have given their explicit permission for their
emails to be distributed via the list.
· Exceed
100 kB in size (this is a courtesy to people accessing the list
via mobile devices using plans that have limited and often
expensive downloads).
· Stray
too far from our main topics: the wild birds of the Canberra/ACT
region, their habitat & conservation.
Subscribers who
fail to comply with these rules will be suspended from the list
for a period or permanently, as determined by COG’s Executive.
COG’s Committee
reminds subscribers that COG (as the list owner), as well as the
authors of any defamatory messages distributed by the list, could
both be found liable in any legal action for defamation.
Capturing bird observation
records
Please note that
reports of bird sightings sent to the CanberraBirds list are not
captured in any birding records databases. If you have a record
that should be included in COG’s database, and thereby included in
COG’s Annual Bird Report, the national birding database Birdata
and the Atlas of Living Australia, please fill in one of the
record forms found at COG’s website http://canberrabirds.org.au/MapsFormsLists/MapsFormsLists_Forms.htm
.
Subscribing
and unsubscribing are easy:
· To
subscribe, send an empty email to
with the word ‘Subscribe’ in the subject line.
· To
unsubscribe, send an empty email to
with the word ‘Unsubscribe’ in the subject line.
· Once
subscribed, to send an email to the list, address it to
Other information can be found by emailing
with the word ‘Help’ in the subject line.
A comprehensive, searchable archive of all the
messages sent to the list is available at http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/canberrabirds.
For any assistance, please contact David
McDonald, who manages the CanberraBirds list on behalf of COG’s
Committee of Management, email
or phone David at (02) 6238 3706.
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David McDonald
Canberra Ornithologists Group email lists manager
1004 Norton Road, Wamboin, NSW 2620, Australia
Tel: (02) 6238 3706
Fax: (02) 9475 4274
Mobile: 0416 231 890
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