Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:29:09 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Maryanne Dolan Subject: Re: NOISE REDUCTION MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As Norm has frequently reminded us, this is not a democracy, but if anyone's interested in my two cents: I, too, enjoy the chatter. I also find opinions on scopes, bins, books, etc. valuable, and I save them, too. It's true that I often get an eye-popping number of messages because of all the chatter, but if I don't have time to read each message, I scan the first few lines - or (confession time!) I delete a whole day's worth and hope I didn't miss anything important. maryanne dolan abtrowbridge@msn.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Speicher" To: Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:40 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] NOISE REDUCTION > I'm relatively new to this "server" but it does seem that there could be > improvements in efficiency. If you are posting a strictly personal appeal, > for example suggestions on field guides or spotting scopes, you should place > your e-mail address PROMINENTLY in the text of your message so it can be > easily cut and pasted for those wishing to reply to you (check it twice for > accuracy!!!). Otherwise the tendency seems to be that the replies will go > out to all the members. > > The second observation is to comment that the whole point of this site is to > share our enjoyment in our hobby by letting people know what's being seen in > the area. Mis-identifications are going to happen, but i don't think anyone > needs to apologize for making a mistake. That approach will only increase > the chances of someone failing to post a bird siting that we would all like > to know about for fear that they may be mistaken. > > I also wonder if it's really necessary for most of us to know the connection > between James Bond the field guide author, James Bond the fictional > character and Ian Fleming. This is the second time this has surfaced in the > two months i've belonged to OSPREY. > > If this offends anyone in any way, i suggest that you reply to me personally > (address below) to spare everyone else on the server from even more noise... > > Jim Speicher > > jspeicher@niaid.nih.gov > > > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================