Well put, Belinda.
In the early years of Birding-Aus I read every single message. Now
that's impossible, and I usually scan the subject lines for anything
that interests me, or for messages I probably need to check as a
moderator. If topics go on for too long (like this one!) then I
occasionally ask people to wind them up unless there is something new
and important to say.
I wouldn't like to see this focus of Birding-Aus narrow. Sure, the
professional ornithologist may not find much to interest them here,
but there is another mailing list elsewhere for them. Mostly this
list is self-regulating, because on the whole, birders are people who
care about the world around them: we get very few trolls or nuisance-
makers here.
There are over 730 current subscribers, and most of them will have a
slightly different view of what Birding-Aus should be. I'd like to
think that it is MOSTLY what MOST subscribers want in a mailing list
about birding.
Good birding to you and everyone in the Birding-Aus community!
Cheers
Russell
Russell Woodford
Birding-Aus List Owner
Geelong Victoria Australia
http://www.birding-aus.org
On 03/10/2007, at 12:50 PM, Gemfyre wrote:
"Of course some people
may not want to read trip reports or discussions on windfarms or how
to choose a scope - but if you eliminated every thread that someone
thought irrelevant we would soon have nothing left!"
Absolutely!
I actually delete a large portion of birding-aus postings when I go
through my e-mail simply because they are not on a subject that
interests me. Takes half a second to do so, maybe less, I don't
expect anyone to accomodate just my interests. As I see it, the
group discusses many and varied things to do with birding and any
individual is only going to need a small portion of that info, so
the individual can do their own filtering.
Belinda
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