MDOSPREY posts

Felton, Gary L. (glf1@cdc.gov)
Fri, 6 Feb 1998 20:43:21 -0500


> I agree with Peter Robinson on this and mine was one of the posts that
> Norm refered to in his initial post regarding this matter.  And quite
> frankly, I was surprised that my suggestion was met with such ire.
> My suggestion was in no way an attempt to censure anyone's opinion,
> comments, advice, sentiments, levity, light chit-chat or anything bird
> related as long as they have at least some relative bearing or
> signifigance to the group as a whole.  But, for instance, if John Doe
> has plans to bird only with Bill Smith on Saturday and he decides to
> call Bill Friday evening to confirm the arrangement,  then it would
> make no sense whatsoever  to call fifty other people and turn it into
> a conference call when it concerns no one other than John and Bill
> exclusively.  Unless that is, if John and Bill are informally letting
> everyone know that anyone else that wants to show up and bird with
> them is welcome.   But most of these type of purely personal
> correspondence posts are the same as turning a personal phone call
> into a conference call among 50 to 100 individuals.  But, based on the
> majority of sentiments I am seeing this seems to be acceptable to and
> actually welcomed by most.       
> 
> 
> Gary Felton
> Rowlesburg, WV
> GLF1@CDC.GOV
> 
> 
> Joe --
> 
> I'm not trying to pick on you or anyone else personaly, but the
> message 
> below that I just read has reminded me that there seems to be MANY 
> messages posted on mdosprey that are really personal messages to one
> or 
> two people, that it seems should be sent directly to those people, not
> 
> to the entire listserve group.  I've resisted making this comment for 
> weeks, thinking that the "newness" of mdosprey was the reason, but it 
> seems to be continuing.
> 
> Is anyone else of the same opinion, or am I the only one?
> 
> Peter Robinson
> peterrobins@hotmail.com
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> To: mdosprey@ARI.Net
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:03:19 -0500
> Subject: info request
> From: halpinj@juno.com (Joseph j Halpin)
> Reply-To: mdosprey@ARI.Net
> 
> To: Les Eastman and Ric Blom
> 
> Paul Dumont, who is leading the ANS/MOS birding trip mid February,
> wants
> to phone you before the trip. If you agree, you can provide your
> phones
> numbers to me and I will forward them to Paul.  Paul is not an
> internet/computer user.
> 
> Joe Halpin
> Silver Spring, MD
> email: halpinj @juno.com
> 
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