> 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 > > _____________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com > Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com