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From: porterg@csusac.csus.edu (Greg Porter)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: hotlines
Message-ID: <1990Jun4.144846.23851@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 90 14:48:46 GMT
References: <1990Jun3.024643.20136@redpoll.uucp>
Reply-To: porterg@csusac.UUCP (Greg Porter)
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In article <1990Jun3.024643.20136@redpoll.uucp> red@redpoll.uucp (Richard E. Depew) writes:
>In article <859@fsu.scri.fsu.edu> sandee@fsu.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee)
>wrote:
>>Posting of RBA hotlines has been discontinued pending creation of a special
>>newsgroup - which will take several months, following Usenet rules.
>>Please post your comments on this newsgroup...
>
>     In the intervening week we saw one large hotline collection,
>and 15 individual hotline postings.  There have been no negative
>comments posted to the newsgroup about the hotlines.  Why should it be
>necessary to discontinue posting them during the discussion of a
>proposed new group? 
>
>     Thank you for the hotline postings!  Please resume them.  It does
>my heart good to be reminded that the birds I see in my backyard rate
>rare bird alerts when they wander somewhere else.
>

I totally agree keep them coming!
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