Pintail and SMS

[Laurie Knight <>]

Isn't the phone relay acknowledgement "Joe Bloggs per Jane Doe"?

LK

On 28/07/2010, at 10:32 PM, Chris Sanderson wrote:

> Hi Mike and Alan,
>
> I can shed some light as I typically handle the SMS side of things for
> Bird-O.  Mike, I did find out about it from your email, but as you  
> credited
> Frank for the sighting, it was Frank I credited on the website.   
> Honestly
> I'm not really sure what the appropriate method is for crediting  
> people is
> here, as I've already had people upset at me for putting their name  
> against
> a sighting.  I do know that in Britain they do not credit observers  
> in their
> pager system, possibly to avoid a fuss if they get it wrong?  If  
> people
> contact me directly and ask to be credited I'll happily oblige, and  
> if I'm
> reading a sighting from elsewhere, I'll try and credit the original  
> observer
> to the best of my knowledge.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Alan McBride <>  
> wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > Well, I'm happy to ask them to comment. Simon?
> >
> > It may well be that they picked it up off Birding -Aus but I can't  
> > imagine
> > that they wouldn't credit anyone if they knew. On the pages it  
> > mentions
> > Frank O'Connor a lot with thanks to him so they may have credited it
> > accordingly to Frank? The whole point as I understand it though is  
> > to get
> > the information out, not deny 'credit' from anyone who should or  
> > shouldn't
> > be credited. I'm not sure that the 'credit' is so important anyway.  
> > The
> > requirement is to get information out; no one I know worries  
> > whether they
> > get 'credit' for reporting something do they? Anyone??
> >
> > I'm also on Birding-Aus and my phone SMS bleeped with the news  
> > before a
> > message from Birding-Aus came through, (on the laptop, which co- 
> > incidentally
> > was on my lap with the i-phone on the table), soon afterwards. (As  
> > Tony
> > wasn't on Birding-Aus at the time that was mission accomplished  
> > anyway);-)
> > I think if you (or Russell/Birding-Aus or whoever) "wants  
> > crediting" (and
> > do people really want crediting) then simply have a word with Simon  
> > Mustoe
> > and I'm sure from my limited dealings with him (sending a story or  
> > two to
> > Wildiaries) he'll be happy to provide appropriate credits. Part of  
> > the very
> > best features I see on Bird-O are to link all relevant parties and  
> > make it
> > one universal system with separate services such as SMS and NOT take
> > anything away from individual web sites. Indeed it's the individual  
> > sites
> > involvement which will make the whole of these sites better and more
> > functional. Again, I'm happy to stand corrected or Simon can  
> > comment if he
> > wants to clarify my limited understanding.
> >
> > If I hadn't got the SMS and simply read it on Birding-Aus later I  
> > would
> > have had no need to write to Birding-Aus to say well done, (as that  
> > is what
> > it's there for anyway;-) ). Either way I would still have been able  
> > to tell
> > Tony it was back;-)
> >
> > Given I signed up for the SMS service and then was told to  
> > unsubscribe and
> > I received this for nothing, I was most impressed;-)
> >
> > I guess on the basis of this note I need to thank Ian May for seeing
> > "hundreds of Princess Parrots" 100 km south of where Phil Gregory,  
> > Don
> > Hadden and myself spent a week in June. Thanks Ian!
> >
> > Very best wishes and thanks for your post too.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 28/07/2010, at 19:57 , Mike Carter wrote:
> >
> > Ah Alan, but did Bird-O tell you how they heard about it?
> > I'm interested to know because at least at one time they weren't in  
> > the
> > habit of crediting their sources nor acknowledging them. What are  
> > the odds
> > that it was my note on Birding-Aus? Information out is one thing.
> > Information in quite another.
> >
> > Mike Carter
> > 30 Canadian Bay Road
> > Mount Eliza  VIC 3930
> > Tel  (03) 9787 7136