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Maryland Osprey is a MajorDomo mailing list.  Any message sent by 
a subscriber to MDOsprey is in turn re-sent to all subscribers.  In
short, it is a way to keep a large group of like-minded individuals in
touch with each other through Internet e-mail.  That's the more
technical definition.  In reality, MDOsprey is something old and
something new.  The 'Osprey' part of the name harkens back to the
computer bulletin board, The Osprey's Nest, run for a bit over ten
years by the owners of this list, Norm and Fran Saunders.  During 
that ten-year period, we met a lot of local Maryland and Virginia and 
DC birders, learned a lot about birding ourselves, and, hopefully, 
taught some things to a few new birders.  The sense of community on 
The Osprey's Nest was unparalleled.  That's the old part that we hope 
to keep alive with MDOsprey.

The new part of MDOsprey is the addition of the word Maryland.  The
restrictive part of The Osprey's Nest was that it really only
attracted folks who lived within a local call of the bulletin board. 
Now, in this age of almost instantaneous e-mail, we can reach out to
people throughout Maryland and hopefully begin to see again a sense of
community among birders all over the state and from anywhere else in
the world who have an interest in birding in Maryland.  Like The
Osprey's Nest, we hope that MDOsprey will serve as a focal
point for those who just want to chat about birding.  You don't have
to be a Ph.D. ornithologist, you don't need to ask 'intelligent'
questions, you just need to enjoy birds and want to know more about
birding in Maryland.

Once again, welcome to MDOsprey!

Norm & Fran Saunders
MDOsprey listowners

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