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Birding-Aus Archive - was resource for overseas and beginning birders

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Subject: Birding-Aus Archive - was resource for overseas and beginning birders
From: L&L Knight <>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:08:59 +1000
The archives are certainly a valuable resource. Indeed, a number of birdwatchers exclusively access Birding Aus via the archive - over 10% of the people who have so far completed the Birding Aus census have indicated that they just access the archives rather than receiving BAus emails.
If you haven't already taken part in the Birding Aus census, I'm 
looking to hear from both people who are subscribed to Birding Aus and 
people who just peruse the archives, people who are regulars and people 
who only surface to post RFIs, people who live in Australia and people 
who live overseas.
In particular, I'm collating comments on Birding Aus, so if you want to 
give Russell Woodford some feedback on this common resource, please 
contact me to receive the questionnaire.
Regards, Laurie.

On Wednesday, August 1, 2007, at 09:00  AM, Peter Shute wrote:

Many people do this (ask the list for site info), so you'd think that by now all one has to do is search the birding-aus archives to get the information, rather than asking again. But it seems that many people send their replies directly rather than via the list, meaning there are a lot of requests in the archives with few or no answers.
Try searching for "RFI Bright" for an example (although perhaps there 
really were no answers).
There must have been a wealth of site information passed around like 
this, that has gone no further than the original recipient.  Maybe 
some people don't want their favourite sites to become general 
knowledge, maybe they just forget to reply to the list, or maybe they 
feel no one else is interested.  I don't know why it happens, but if 
it happened less, then the archives would be a better resource.
Peter Shute
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